Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Metropolitan Emmanuel of France Visits Cyprus for St.Barnabas Day

On 11 June 2019,the Feast of the Holy Apostle Barnabas,founder of the Church of Cyprus,was observed with a Divine Liturgy at the Church of St.Barnabas in Dasoupolis,Nicosia,Cyprus,concelebrated by His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos II of New Justiniana and All Cyprus and several other hierarchs,including:
His Eminence Metropolitan Emmanuel of France (Ecumenical Patriarchate);
His Eminence Metropolitan Isaias of Tomassos and Oreini (Church of Cyprus);
His Grace Bishop Nikodimos of Nitria (Patriarchate of Alexandria);
and several other clerics.*
At the liturgy's conclusion,Metropolitan Emmanuel read a congratulatory message from His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarchate Bartholomew of Constantinople.In response,Archbishop Chrysostomos warmly expressed his gratitude for the message and Metropolitan Emmanuel's visit,and his love for Patriarch Bartholomew and the Holy and Great Church of Christ at Constantinople,which,Archbishop Chrysostomos noted,has repeatedly supported the Church of Cyprus.

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