Ordination of a Hierodeacon at the Patriarchate of I.M. Agios Savvas the Saint of Alexandriatranslated

On Sunday, August 30, 2026, with the blessing of His Beatitude the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, Mr. Theodore II, the Most Holy Bishop of Mareotis, Mr. Damascenes, Patriarchal Commissioner of Alexandria, presided over the Divine Liturgy in the historic Patriarchal Holy Monastery of Agios Savvas the Saint of Alexandria. The Most Reverend Metropolitan of Tamiatheos, Mr. Germanos, Spiritualist of the Holy Monastery, attended the prayer, in the presence of a large number of believers from the flock of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, who came from various cities of Egypt to participate in the spiritual joy of the day.
During the Divine Liturgy, His Holiness performed the exhortation and blessing of His Beatitude, the ordination to deacon of the monk Porphyrios Metri, in an atmosphere of spiritual joy and emotion.
Before the ordination, Bishop Mareotidos addressed fatherly words to the new cleric, underlining that the priesthood is not an honor or a privilege, but a call to sacrifice, humiliation and total offering to God and man. He urged him to preserve throughout the course of his ministry simplicity, obedience and love for every human being.…



