Bishop Irinej attends Name Day Celebration of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I at The Phanar

While visiting The City of Constantinople and The Great Church of Christ, 10-11 June 2009, His Grace Bishop Irinej of Australia and New Zealand attended the Name Day Celebration of His All Holiness the Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I.

Representatives from throughout the Orthodox world gathered at the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople to honour Patriarch Bartholomew on the celebration of his patronal feast, the Holy Apostle Bartholomew. The distinguished list of delegates and guests, which included representatives of the various local Orthodox Churches, as well as members of the Diplomatic and Consular Corps and Archons of the Ecumenical Throne, was headed by His Beatitude Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and Primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece.

The impressive two day celebration presided over by the Ecumenical Patriarch, included the celebration of Great Vespers at the Monastery of the Theotokos of the Life-giving Font and the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral Church of St. George in the Phanar.

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