Vigil for the Collection of the Holy Relics of Agios Nektarios in Corfutranslated

On the evening of Wednesday, September 2 to Thursday, September 3, 2026, His Eminence the Metropolitan of Corfu, Paxos and the Diapontian Islands Mr. Nektarios held a Holy Vigil on the feast of the Retrieval of the Holy Relics of Saint Nektarios, Bishop of Pentapolis the Wonderworker, in the chapel of the same name of the Holy Monastery of Saints Theodoron in Middle Corfu, where His Eminence lives after a small entourage. The Holy Vigil is held every year in a particularly oppressive atmosphere, with the participation of delegations from the monastic brotherhoods of the island, as well as monks and nuns from other regions. The hymns of the holiday were performed by a dance under the direction of the Musicology professor of the School of Byzantine Music of the Holy Metropolis, "Saint Arsenios", Protopresbyter Nektarios Bokos, flanked by fathers and cantors of the local Church, including the High Priest Commissioner of the city of Corfu, Protopresbyter Nikolaos Monastriotis.

Among the fathers who collaborated with His Eminence was the Panosiology Professor of the Holy Monastery of Saints Theodoros Tironos and Georgios Tropaioforos Stratias and Preacher of the Holy Metropolis, Archimandrite Christodoulos...