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The Metropolitan of Mantineia Epiphanios in the Panarkadian Hospital of Tripolitranslated

August 11, 2026 · 1 min read

On the morning of Tuesday, August 11, 2026, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Mantineia and Kynouria Mr. Epifanios went to the Panarkadian General Hospital of Tripoli, where, in the Holy Church of Saints Anargyros Cosmas and Damianos, he performed the Holy Supplication to the Most Holy Theotokos. The Director of the Panarkadian Hospital was present at the Holy Prayer, as well as doctors, members of the nursing and other staff, patients and their companions, who came reverently to join their prayer to our Virgin Mary during these blessed days of the fifteenth of August.

In the special atmosphere of the hospital area, where daily human pain and anguish meet with hope, science, care and the expectation of healing, the hymns of the Holy Prayer to the Most Holy Theotokos, whom our Church invokes as Mother, shelter, refuge and consolation of every suffering soul, resounded.

His Eminence prayed especially for the health, strengthening and speedy recovery of all patients hospitalized at the Panarkadian Hospital, as well as for their relatives and companions. At the same time, God wished, through embassies of...

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Роман Зайцев
It is good that Bishop Epiphanius celebrated the Paraklis right in the hospital church during these days of the Dormition Lent. Doctors, nurses and patients prayed together - this is for real. Here in Rostov, too, sometimes priests serve in hospitals; people really need it.
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