The Feast of the Indiction at the Ecumenical Patriarchate

With great splendor, in keeping with the Church’s age-old order and tradition, the Ecumenical Patriarchate celebrated the beginning of the Indiction — the ecclesiastical New Year — on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, along with the Feast of the Most Holy Theotokos of Pammakaristos, whose sacred icon is kept in the All-Holy Patriarchal Church. Since 1989, Mother Church has also dedicated this day to prayer for the protection of the natural environment.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided over the Divine Liturgy, concelebrated by the Hierarchs: Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, Elder Metropolitan Apostolos of Derkoi, Elder Metropolitan Dimitrios of the Princes’ Islands, Metropolitan Ambrosios of Karpathos and Kasos, Metropolitan Apostolos of Miletus, Metropolitan Joseph of Prikonisos, Metropolitan Meliton of Philadelphia, Metropolitan Seraphim of Sevastia, Metropolitan Irenaios of Myriophyto and Peristasis, Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Myra, Metropolitan Theodoritos of Laodicea, Metropolitan Nikandros of Eirinoupolis, Metropolitan Kyrillos of Rhodes, Metropolitan Kyrillos of Krini, Metropolitan Stephanos of Kallioupolis and Madytos, Metropolitan Joseph of Buenos Aires,…