The Metropolitan of Sweden honored the outgoing Ambassador of Greecetranslated

In the High Priestly Divine Liturgy, which was celebrated on Sunday, September 27, 2026, in the Cathedral of St. George in Stockholm, the Ambassador of Greece to Sweden, Ms. Aikaterini Fountoulakis, who will complete her successful diplomatic term in the country in a few days and return to Athens, in order to take on new duties in the particularly critical and critical area of Greek-Turkish relations. In his sermon, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Sweden and all Scandinavia, Mr. Kleopas, referred to the Gospel passage of the First Sunday of Luke and to the invitation of the Lord to the Apostle Peter: "Return to the depths".

He emphasized that Christ calls every person to go deeper in faith, in prayer, in self-knowledge and in practical love, without allowing the disappointments and failures of the past to determine their future.

Shortly before the transmission of Holy Communion, His Holiness spoke to the children of the Catechetical School, in front of the congregation, about Saint Chariton the Confessor, whose memory our Church honors on September 28.

Afterwards, the children offered to…