The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, officiated at the Service of the Bridegroom on Holy Monday at Patriarchal cathedral of St. George, in the Bosporus metropolis.
The Holy Monday service officiated by the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, was held at the chapel of the Belgrade School of Theology.
Afterwards, His Holiness called on seminary students to follow the path of the Passion of Christ, namely, with humility, and to experience the joyous message of the Resurrection.