The Transfiguration of Saint John the Theologian and priest in Corfutranslated

On Saturday, September 26, 2026, the day on which our Holy Church celebrates the Transfiguration of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Corfu, Paxos and Diapontian Islands, Mr. Nektarios, officiated and spoke at the Holy Monastery of Saints Theodoros Tironos and Georgios Tropaioforos Stratia, nearby of the city of Corfu. During the Divine Liturgy, His Eminence ordained a rosary monk, Dimitrios Tsirigotis, 30 years old, originally from Corfu, an economist and student of theology, who received the monastic name Chrysanthos. The professor of the Holy Monastery is the Panosiology Preacher of the Holy Metropolis, Archimandrite Christodoulos Triantafyllos, who in recent years has been working for the restoration and manning of the Monastery. In addition to the Holy Professor, after His Holiness, the superior of the Holy Church, in which Fr. Chrysanthos, Protopresbyter Athanasios Kokkinopoulos, fathers of the Holy Monastery, as well as its Deacons, ministered as a layman.

At the end of the Divine Liturgy, His Holiness addressed the new monk, Fr.