LIVE FROM IMBRO: Collaborator of Primates for the anniversary of 65 years of Priesthood of the Ecumenical Patriarchtranslated

Sixty-five years have passed today since the day that the Ecumenical Patriarch Mr. Bartholomew received the first degree of priesthood in his birthplace, Imbro. It was August 13, 1961 when he was ordained a deacon by the then Metropolitan of Imbros and Tenedos and his spiritual father, Melitos (Hatzis), in the Holy Metropolitan Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Imbros. At this time, on the occasion of the anniversary, in the same Church, a Mass of the Primates of the Ecumenical Patriarch, Mr. Bartholomew and the participation of the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa etc. Theodore II and Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and all Albania etc. John.

Reverends also take part in the mass. Metropolitans: Mr. Emmanuel of Geron Chalkidon, Mr. George of Guinea, Mr. Melito of Philadelphia and Mr. Chrysostomos of Myron.

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