Inauguration of the Holy Church of the Three Hierarchs in Budapest and Triarchial Divine Liturgytranslated

On Thursday, August 20, 2026, when the Church commemorates the Illuminators of the Hungarian Bishops Ierotheos and Stefanos Vasileos and is the National Anniversary of Hungary, His Eminence the Metropolitan of Austria and Exarch of Hungary performed the blessing and exhortation of the A.Th.P. of the Ecumenical Patriarch the Inauguration of the Holy Church of the Three Hierarchs, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom at the "Fanarion" Orthodox Christian Dialogue Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Budapest, which will be the seat of the Hungarian Exarchate in Budapest. The Theophilist Bishops of Apameia, Mr. Paisios and Mr. Aristis, Mr. Maximos collaborated with His Eminence, while clerics from the Exarchate of Hungary and the Metropolis of Austria assisted.

In his sermon, His Holiness spoke about the importance of the Inauguration Ceremony, which in addition to the completion of a building project is the event of handing over a space to the grace of God, pointing out that the stones of the Church will witness prayer, the walls will receive the whisper of repentance, the plea of the suffering, the joy of the child, the thanksgiving of the believer and the silence…