Source: The National Herald Analysis by Theodore Kalmoukos On March 5, which was the Sunday of Orthodoxy, the newly elected Archbishop Georgios of Cyprus made his first official visit to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. The visit in ecclesiastical language is called ‘the peaceful visit, and it was done according to the long-standing tradition of the Church. The Cypriot Archbishop co-celebrated the Divine Liturgy with Patriarch Bartholomew and members of his Synod, an act that manifests the unity of the two churches of Cyprus and Constantinople. On the same day, Metropolitan Epiphanios of Kyiv and All Ukraine made his ‘peaceful…
Greece's Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, center, walks behind head of Cyprus' Orthodox Church Archbishop Georgios and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, right, after a liturgy for Orthodox Christians at the Patriarchal Holy Church of Saint George in Istanbul, Sunday, March 5, 2023. Dendias joined a memorial service for the victims of the Tempi railway accident as well as for the victims of the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)