The archbishop also invited them to the inauguration of the national pilgrimage of I.N. St. Nikolaou.
In a highly symbolic gesture, the Archbishop of America Hopeful will honor his two living predecessors who served as Archbishops of America, Spyridon and Demetrius, at the inauguration ceremony of the 46th Clergy Assembly of the Archdiocese of America in New York on July 4, 2022, which will be broadcast live on social media. .
Both hierarchs additionally accepted the invitation of the archbishop to attend and participate in the historic ceremony of the inauguration of the performance in the divine worship of the national pilgrimage, Church of St. Nicholas at Point Zero, in the morning of the same day.
As Archbishop Elpidoforos stated, “It is a special blessing that we will have with us two of the eight men who have led the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America for the last 100 years and in fact at the time of celebrating this jubilee. We thank both our former archbishops and we all envision together the second hundred years of our Archdiocese “, underlined.
“We live in a historic moment of healing the wounds of the past, unity, reconciliation, peace and we must all move forward together in the next 100 years as an Archdiocese united in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ”he stressed.
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