Inauguration of the Holy Church of Panagia Sumela in Apideonas, Patronstranslated

They were brilliantly performed under His Eminence the Metropolitan of Patras, Mr. Chrysostomou, the Inauguration of the Holy Church of Panagia Sumela, in the Cemetery of the Parish of Agios Georgios, in Apideonas, Patras. Apideon is a village inhabited by our Pontian brothers, who during the difficult years of the Pontian Genocide abandoned their land and the bones of their Heroic and Martyr ancestors and settled in Metropolitan Greece. They carried the sacred and the faithful in their hearts and in their arms, from the forgotten Homelands and rooted and struggled and advanced to the motherland.

The Most Reverend Metropolitan of Patras, Mr. Chrysostomos, surrounded the descendants of the Refugees in Apideon with great love and helped to keep the memory and tradition of Pontus alive and to be transmitted to the next generation.

In the Holy Church of Agios Georgios Apideonos, sacred Masses are held and in the courtyard there are events that mentally transport everyone to the holy and martyred lands of Pontus.

The replica of the Holy Icon of Agios Georgios Peristereotas gathers the reverence of young and old, not only of its inhabitants...