On 13 June 2020, His Excellency Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Greece,paid a courtesy call on the Most Reverend Epiphanios, Metropolitan of Thira,Amorgos and Nisoi at the Metropolis headquarters on the island of Santorini.Mr.Mitsotakis, with two Ministerial staff,had come to Santorini to inaugurate the tourist season.*
His Eminence welcomed the Prime Minister ,thanking him for the official visit and for his struggle to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.They discussed social and ecclesiastical issues, and Mr.Mitsotakis expressed his pleasure at meeting one of the worthiest hierarchs of the Church of Greece, the seventh archpastor.
For his part, Metropolitan Epiphanios presented the Prime Minister with an icon of the Saviour with a prayer to bless and strengthen him in the arduous task of governing the fatherland.*
The Metropolis contains several of the Cyclades islands of the Southern Aegean.It has two each of male and female monasteries.*
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Cyprus: Metropolitan Isaias Remembers Emperor Konstantinos
On 31 May 2020, His Eminence Metropolitan Isaias of Tomasos and Oreini led a memorial service for the last Byzantine Emperor,Konstantinos XI Palaiologos,who died defending the Queen of Cities, Constantinople, from the Ottoman Turks on 29 May 1453.The service was held before a replica of an iconic statue of the heroic Emperor in the Metropolis compound, which includes the new Russian Church of St. Andrew that serves the many Russian expatriates in Cyprus.His Eminence said that:
As long as a Greek heart beats, the memory of the City's fall will be reborn in our souls.*
The Byzantine Empire, over its thousand year history, became a beacon of culture and the humanities,as well as an exponent of the Eastern Orthodox faith.It achieved this through a juxtoposition of classical Greek culture,Roman law and Christianity.They referred to themselves as "the Romaioi", the Romans, because they lived in the Eastern half of the Roman Empire - the half that ultimately survived until 1453 and,in certain respects, even until our own era.
As His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America reflected on 29 May:
What matters most is that the legacy of the Christian Roman Empire is incarnate in the sacred person of the Ecumenical Patriarch and the continuing diakonia (service) of the Great Church that continues to this day.*
As long as a Greek heart beats, the memory of the City's fall will be reborn in our souls.*
The Byzantine Empire, over its thousand year history, became a beacon of culture and the humanities,as well as an exponent of the Eastern Orthodox faith.It achieved this through a juxtoposition of classical Greek culture,Roman law and Christianity.They referred to themselves as "the Romaioi", the Romans, because they lived in the Eastern half of the Roman Empire - the half that ultimately survived until 1453 and,in certain respects, even until our own era.
As His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America reflected on 29 May:
What matters most is that the legacy of the Christian Roman Empire is incarnate in the sacred person of the Ecumenical Patriarch and the continuing diakonia (service) of the Great Church that continues to this day.*
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