Childhood and teenage memories for the Metropolitan of Syros in the Holy Church of All Saints Kallitheatranslated

Honoring the 100th anniversary of its construction, the Venerable Metropolitan of Syros Mr. Dorotheos II celebrated the Divine Liturgy today at the Holy Church of All Saints Kallithea, with the participation of the Church's clergy and the presence of a large congregation. In his speech, His Eminence recalled his childhood and adolescence and the experiences he experienced in this Church, as a priest and student of the Catechism School, with Catechists the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Artis, Mr. Ignatios, then a student of Theology and the late Archim. Vasilios Yantokis.

Next, he spoke about Saints Anargyros Cosmas and Damianos, who are being honored today, referring to the virtue of love for a suffering fellow human being, healing them free of charge, while they lived on earth, and listening to their prayers and fulfilling their requests, being close to the Throne of God.

He added that this virtue of love also distinguished Saint Methodia, whom I practiced from Kimolos, a fragment of whose holy relics, kept in the Episcopate of Erbipolis, he brought to the Church for the blessing and support of the faithful.

thanked His Beatitude the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and...