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Archimandrite Chrysostomos Yontzas fell asleeptranslated

October 6, 2026 · 1 min read

Passed away to God today, Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at the age of 95, His Eminence Archimandrite Fr. Aegialia. The tabernacle of the migrating Priest will be inside the Metropolitan Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos Faneromenis Aigio from the morning of Wednesday, October 7, 2026, where the Divine Liturgy will be celebrated, from 7:00 am. to 9:15 a.m. Afterwards, at 11:00 a.m., the Exodus Mass will be chanted and then the burial will take place at the Cemetery of the Local Community of Valimitikos Aigio, from where the Blessed One came from.

In detail, the announcement of the Holy Metropolis of Kalavryta and Aegialia on the graduation of Archimandrite Chrysostomos Yontzas: "After much sadness, our local Church informs the Christ-named crew that today, Tuesday, October 6, AD, at the age of 95, the Panosiology Archimandrite Fr. Chrysostomos Yontzas, Retired Vicar of the Holy Church of the Nativity of the Virgin of the Local Community of Verinos...

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Stephen King

He made it to 95 and served right there in Verino at the Nativity of the Theotokos church. That's a long faithful run. The funeral at Faneromeni starting with Liturgy at 7 a.m. sounds like the whole parish will be there to see him off to the cemetery in Valimitika where he was from. Memory eternal.