The Church today venerates the memory of Alexander, John, and Paul the New, Patriarchs of Constantinople. Today is also the commemoration of the Apodosis of the Feast of the Forerunner.
The feast day of St. Alexander, the great Father of the Church and Patriarch of Constantinople, was commemorated in several celebrating parishes around Greece.
A great archieratical Vespers was held on the eve of the feast day, Monday afternoon, at the dedicated cathedral in the coastal Athens district of Paleo Faliro, officiated by the visiting Metropolitan of Peristeri, His Eminence Grigorios, and attended by the Metropolitan of Nea Smyrni, His Eminence Symeon, as well as the Metropolitan of Fthiotida, His Eminence Symeon.
In a sermon, His Eminence referred to the patron saint of Paleo Faliro and blessed saint’s ministry.
Further to the south, in the central Peloponnese city of Tripoli, the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, attended the Vespers service in memory of St. Alexander at a dedicated cathedral in the city, officiated by the Metropolitan of Monemvasia and Sparta, His Eminence Efstathios, and attended by several other hierarchs of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece.
Still in the same region, the main hospital in the picturesque harbor city of Nafplio also commemorated the feast day of its patron saint, Alexander, with services held in the dedicated chapel at the facility’s courtyard.
A great festal Vespers was officiated by the Metropolitan of Argolida, His Eminence Nektarios, on the eve of the feast day.
