Patriarchal and Synodal Circular for the 1400th Anniversary of the Akathistos Hymntranslated

Patriarchal and Synodical Encyclical issued on the celebration of the 1400th anniversary of the upright chanting of the Akathistos Hymn for the rescue of Vasilevousa from the siege of the Avars and the Persians.

Ecumenical Patriarchate

+ BARTHOLOMEUS

ELEῼ THEO ARCHBISHOP

KONSTANTINOUPOLEOS – NEW ROME

AND Ecumenical Patriarch

PANTI Tῼ STAFF OF THE CHURCH

GRACE AND PEACE, THANK GOD

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"To the Ὑpermachῳ Strategῷ the victories, as the redeemer of the sufferings, I thank You, Your City, Theotokos!"

This year marks one thousand four hundred years since, in honor of the Theotokos, he was officially chanted in the church, and in fact by all the faithful standing up, today known throughout the world as the "Sedentary Man" Kontakion, a poem of praise and praise, referring, historically and theologically, with a unique wealth of beauty, to the Incarnate Divine Economy and to the unique contribution of the All-Mother Theotokos.

The praying faithful for this Kontakion devoutly greet the Virgin Mary with successive repetitions of the first address to Kecharitomen of the evangelist the grace and joy of the Archangel Gabriel, of the word...