Beginning of the Pastoral Sector of Readers and Priests of I. M. Etoloakarnaniatranslated

In the Holy Chapel of Agios Demetrius in Aetoliko, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Aetolia and Acarnania, Mr. Damascinos, officiated at the Orthros Service and presided over the High Priestly Divine Liturgy on Saturday, October 10, 2026, on the occasion of the start of the annual activities of the Pastoral Sector of Readers and Hierarchs of the Sanctuary Metropolis "Saint Danax the Reader".

The majority of Readers serving in our local Church participated in the Divine Liturgy, while His Holiness ordained one more Reader, the student Vasilios Asprogiannis, son of Protopr. Evangelos Asprogiannis, Head of the Holy Church of Agios Georgios Agrini

During his sermon, His Holiness referred with special paternal love to the Readers and Priests of the local Church, to the young people who freely and with the consent of their parents and spiritual fathers undertook the blessed ministry of Divine Worship and the Holy Analogy.

Speaking about the pastoral care of the Holy Metropolis for the cultivation of priestly vocations, he recalled that from the first moment of his archpriestly ministry, a special Department of Readers was created, with the aim of preparing...