Annual memorial service for the late MP and Deputy Minister Apostolos Vesyropoulostranslated

On the morning of Sunday, August 9, 2026, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Berea, Naoussa and Campania Mr. Panteleimon officiated and preached the divine Word in the Metropolitan Church of the Dormition of the Virgin of Alexandria. At the end of the Divine Liturgy, the annual memorial service for the late Imathia MP and Deputy Minister Apostolos Vesyropoulos was held.

His Excellency's speech

"Unfaithful and perverse generation...how long shall I put up with you?"

Sunday after the great despotic feast of the divine Transfiguration, and the scene we watched unfold on Mount Tabor, with our Lord being transfigured before his disciples, with his face shining like the sun and his clothes becoming white as light, but also with the voice of God-Father to be heard from the clouds and to say that the transfigured Christ is his beloved Son, is at the opposite end of today's scene presented to us by the holy evangelist Matthew.

A father is an unhappy and suffering man who sees his son mooning and sometimes falling into the fire and sometimes into the water and not being able to help him.

And the son an unhappy existence that is tortured without...