Eight-day pilgrimage and cultural trek in Lower Italy with Metropolitan Thessaliotidostranslated

In Lower Italy is the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Thessaly and Phanariophersalon, Mr. Timotheus, who is carrying out a pilgrimage and cultural tour, accompanied by the Protosygello of the Holy Metropolis, clergy, as well as a group of pilgrims. By the grace of God, the excursion started on Sunday, September 27, 2026 from Karditsa, bound for Igoumenitsa and from there to Bari, where the ecclesiastical and cultural tradition of the region is inextricably linked with the Greek world and the Orthodox Church.

From Karditsa to Bari, Lecce and Galatina On Monday, September 28, His Eminence and his entourage went to the Holy Church of Saint Nicholas in Bari, where a pilgrimage was made to the crypt of the holy tabernacle of Saint Nicholas. The presence at the place where the holy relic of the Saint rests, that great Saint of the Ecumenical, was a particularly important stop of the pilgrimage.

The delegation then toured the historic city of Bari, known as the 'Florence of the South', admiring the distinctive architecture, historic churches, picturesque cobblestones and monuments that bear witness to…