Consecration at the School of Byzantine Music of the Metropolis of Monemvasia and Spartatranslated

On the afternoon of Friday, October 23, 2026, in the newly built facilities of the School of Byzantine Music "Peter the Lacedaemonian" of the Holy Metropolis of Monemvasia and Sparta - Stavros Niarchos Foundation Building Complex (SNF), which are located in the new workers' residences in front of the pilgrimage Church of Agios Basilios Sparta, was performed by Most Reverend Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta Mr. Efstathios the Consecration for the start of the new educational year.

The consecration was attended by the Theophilus Bishop of Lacedaemonia, Mr. Theophilos, the preacher and Head of the Metropolitan Church of Evangelistria, His Eminence Archimandrite Efstathios Porphyris, the head of the building complex and vicar of Agios Ioannis Sparta, His Eminence Protopresbyter Theodoros Kyriazopoulos and the hierodeacon Father Christodoulos.

The Reverend Pastor initially expressed his grateful thanks to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) for fully financing the state-of-the-art building, which - in addition to the Byzantine Music School - will also house the "Fotis Kontoglou" School of Hagiography. As His Eminence specifically mentioned, the Stavros Foundation...