Vespers for the 62nd anniversary of the Recollection of the Holy Cara of Saint Andrew in Patrastranslated

On Saturday, September 26, 2026, the Solemn Vespers was celebrated with splendor and all solemnity in the magnificent New Holy Church of the Holy Apostle Andrew Patras, full of believers, on the 62nd anniversary of the Returning of the Holy Chariot of the Holy Apostle from Rome to Patras. The Solemn Vespers was officiated by the Most Reverend Archbishop of Bouzai and Vrancea, Mr. Kyprianos (Patriarch of Romania), concelebrants of the Most Reverend Metropolitans of Zichna and Neurokopi, Mr. Ierotheos, Trikki, Gardiki and Pyli, Mr. Chrysostomou, Kalavryta and Aigialeia, etc. Hieronymos, the Theophilist Bishop of Kernitsa Mr. Chrysanthos and His Eminence the Metropolitan of Patras Mr. Chrysostomos.

The divine speech was preached by the Most Reverend Archbishop of Bouzai and Vrancea, Mr. Kyprianos, who, in fluent Greek, thanked the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Patras for the kind invitation to participate in the celebration for the Recollection of the Shroud of the Apostle Andrew in Patras.

Archbishop Kyprianos referred, among other things, to the presence of the Apostle Andrew in Romania, to the devotion of the Romanian people to the Apostle, to the construction of the surrounding Church of...