Sparta: Polyhierarchical ritual for the Names of Metropolitan Efstathiostranslated

On the holy day of the feast of the Holy Great Martyr Eustathius, the wife of Theopistus and their children, Agapios and Theopistus, Sunday September 20, 2026, the day when the Most Reverend Metropolitan Mr. Eustathius celebrates his septs of Naming, was held, with ecclesiastical magnificence, High Priest Collaborator, in the Metropolitan Church of Evangelistria in Sparta, preeminent of the Pastor. The Most Reverend Metropolitans: Mr. Chrysostomos of Patras, who presided over Orthros, Mr. Antonios of Glyfada, Mr. Chrysostomos III of Mani and Mr. Epiphanios of Mantineia and Kynouria, the Theophilist Bishops: Mr. Theoklitos of Tegea, Mr. Nikodimos of Epidaurus, Zenoupolis participated in the High Priestly Ceremony. Mr. Dionysios and Lacedaemonia Mr. Theophilos and a multitude of priests both from our Holy Metropolis and from other regions of our Homeland.

The Most Reverend Metropolitan of Patras Mr. Chrysostomos addressed his melodious speech to the congregation, who initially referred to the Gospel passage of the day in which the Lord expresses the exhortation "Whoever wants to come after me, let him deny himself and worship his cross, and follow me", which is the core of the faith...