Mission and communion among the Orthodox Churches: The visit of Metropolitan Kitros Georgiou, Pastor of a Province with Apostolic rootstranslated

By Bishop Prahova Timotheus

Assistant Bishop of the Archdiocese of Bucharest

The Church of Christ, the one, holy, catholic and apostolic, has places where the memory of Christian beginnings still illuminates people's lives. In these areas, the testimony of those who preached the Gospel has taken root in the consciousness of the communities, strengthening their faith, rekindling their prayer and guiding their steps towards the Kingdom of God. The passing of the centuries enriched this heritage with figures of saints, with the labors of shepherds and with innumerable acts of humble love, through which the apostolic word bore fruit in history and remained close to the human heart.

Such a place is located in northern Greece, on the borders of the Orthodox Diocese of Kitros, Katerinis and Platamonos, an ecclesiastical province with ancient Christian roots, whose identity is intertwined with the ecclesiastical history of Macedonia. Here, the memory of faith opens up towards the dawn of the apostolic preaching, while the life of today's communities carries into the future the gift it received from its ancestors. Among the beauty of the place…