From Alexandria to Greece: Patriarchal prayer for the cessation of firestranslated

Yesterday, Thursday, August 6, 2026, the main day of the great Despotic Feast of the Transfiguration of the Savior, His Beatitude the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, Mr. Theodore II, before the end of the Divine Liturgy which was held in the Holy Patriarchal Monastery of Agios Savvas the Saint of Alexandria, blessed the grapes according to tradition and distributed them to the faithful. Then, praying, he sent out a fervent prayer for the devastating consequences of the fires in Greece, the victims and the great material damage and the ecological disaster, praying in particular for the repose of his godchild, the firefighter Panteleimonos Diamantakis, who heroically fell in the line of duty.

At the same time, he sent his heartfelt wishes and support to His Beatitude the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, Mr. Hieronymus II, as well as to the venerable Hierarchy, the pious Clergy and the blessed People of Greece, wishing for a speedy cessation of the destructive fires and the sending of beneficial rains from heaven to the tested areas.

His Beatitude did not fail to express his warm thanks to His Excellency the President of the Arab...