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Dramas Dorotheos: We do not know what the agreement with Bulgaria says about the relics (AUDIO)translated

November 11, 2026 · 1 min read

Speaking to Theta FM, he said that in order for his metropolis to receive the relics of Ikosifonissa, which are now housed in the Byzantine Museum of Thessaloniki, he would have to put his signature and wondered: "However, at a time when we don't know what the agreement says, you put your signature to receive something without knowing how it is given to you? Say, is it given to you as a loan or as a sovereign? This has not been clarified." The Metropolitan of Drama, Dorotheos, was not invited to the high-priestly mass held in Serres in honor of the city's patron saints, Archangels Michael and Gabriel, and on the occasion of the return of the relics from Bulgaria.

Despite the fact that most of the treasures included in the return agreement were stolen during the First World War from the Holy Monastery of Panagia Eikosifonissa belonging to the metropolis of Drama, the metropolitan was not at yesterday's solemn Divine Liturgy, the Doxology and all the other events that followed, since, as he told Theta FM, he never received an invitation.

"I wasn't invited, how am I going to go?", the hierarch answered the question of the journalist Yannis Ioannidis, why he wasn't at the...

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