Visit of Archbishop Kallinikos to North America

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Created on Tuesday, 25 September 2012 02:21

At the invitation of His Eminence Metropolitan Pavlos of America, His Beatitude Archbishop Kallinikos of the G.O.C. of Athens and all Greece will visit America and Canada from Friday September 28th until Monday October 8th 2012, accompanied by His Eminence Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Attica and Boeotia and His Grace Bishop Photios of Marathon, Chief-Secretary of the Holy Synod.

The Archbishop and his entourage will arrive in NY on Friday, September 28th, where he will preside over a meeting of the Eparchial Synod on Monday. The Holy Eparchial Synod in America includes Their Eminences, Metropolitan Pavlos of North and South America and Metropolitan Moses of Portland and the Western United States, and Their Graces, Bishop Photios of Marathon, Bishop Christodoulos of Theoupolis, Bishop Sergios of Loch Lomond and Bishop Demetrius of Boston.

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