On the afternoon of Friday, 2 October, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, accompanied by His Eminence Metropolitan Ioakeim of Lambi, Syvritos and Sfakia and the Grand Archdeacon Alexandros, visited the Holy Monastery of Baloukli, where the Patriarchal Cemetery is located, and celebrated a Trisagion at the grave of his predecessor, the late Patriarch Dimitrios, on the anniversary of his repose in the Lord.
His All-Holiness then proceeded to the Cemetery of Saint Ignatios of Chalcedon, where His Eminence Metropolitan Ioakeim of Lambi chanted a Trisagion before the grave of the late Metropolitan Ioakeim of Nicomedia, praying for the repose of his soul in the dwelling places of the righteous.
File photograph: Nikos Papachristou / Ecumenical Patriarchate