In order to pay the tribute due to the memory of the Fighters of the Greek Revolution of 1821 and given the particular significance of the anniversary year 2021, the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece announces the Timetable of the festive events planned to take place during the month of March by the local Holy Metropolitanates.
The timetable is subject to modifications depending on the precautionary measures related to the pandemic, as these will apply in the following weeks.
Specifically:
SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 2021
- IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Lemnos and Saint Eustratios.
18h30 Online One-Day Conference on the subject: “The Spetsiot Neomartyrs and Ethnomartyrs” by the Protopresbyter Andreas Koumbis, Vicar of Spetses, mathematician, theologian, and history researcher.
Launch Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83210711045?pwd=NmVzSGJydFFMOS81UnpqcWlKci9XQT09
(Meeting ID: 832 1071 1045, Passcode: 281311)
MONDAY, MARCH 15, 2021
- IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Zakynthos
Lecture | Metropolitan Dionysios IV of Zakynthos: “The Contribution of Monasticism to the Greek Revolution of 1821”
SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 2021
- IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Messinia.
17:00 Online Scholarly Conference on the topic: “The culture of the few and the virtue of the many”. - IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Messogaia and Lavreotiki
18:21 Online youth meeting on the topic : “On the feast day of the Virgin Mary and the Fatherland”. The event will symbolically begin at 18:21 and will be broadcast on the website of the Holy Metropolitanate : www.imml.gr - IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Lemnos and Saint Eustratios.
18:30 Online event on the subject “The part played by the institution of community during the period of the Ottoman Rule and until the Protocol of Independence of the Greek state (London 1830) – Cultural aspects of an inter-religious meeting”. Speaker: Mr Christos Patsis, philologist and theologian.
SUNDAY, MARCH 21, 2021
- IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Kalavryta and Aighialeia.
Archieratical Divine Liturgy in Kalavryta (Holy Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God) for the bicentenary of the liberation of the town in 1821. - IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Zakynthos
Lecture |Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Throne Father Panaghiotis Capodistrias, Vicar General of the Holy Metropolitanate of Zakynthos, Master’s degree in Theology, poet: “Dionysios Solomos, perennial firebrand in one way or another”
MONDAY, MARCH 22, 2021
- IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Phthiotis.
17:00 Online event (www.imfth.gr) on the topic: “The education of priests in the years of the Turkish Rule”, with the participation of the students of the Ecclesiastical High school of Lamia. - IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Nikopolis and Preveza. 17:30 Online music event (www.ekklisia1821,gr) with the “Chorus Nicopolitanus” choir of the School of Byzantine Music of the Holy Metropolitanate.
- IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Glyfada, Ellinikon, Voula, Vouliagmeni, and Vari.
18:30 Online public lecture (www.ekklisia1821.gr) on the subject: “Fight for Faith and Fatherland: the Ideological Background of the Greek Revolution”. Speaker: Constantinos Holevas, political scientist and writer.
TUESDAY to THURSDAY, MARCH 23 to 25, 2021
Three-day Panhellenic Solemn Celebration.
Raising of the flags in all the holy churches of the Church of Greece.
Worship services in the Cathedrals of all the Holy Metropolitanates of the Church of Greece, during which the special prayer composed in honour of the 200th anniversary of the liberation of our Fatherland, composed by Most Rev. Metropolitan Ioel of Edessa, Pella and Almopia.
Reading out of an Encyclical of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece in all the holy churches of the Church of Greece.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 2021
- IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Phthiotis.
Solemn Vespers in the Holy Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Mother of God of Lamia. - IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Mytileni.
Memorial prayer before the closed coffin where the relic of the Mytilenean Metropolitan Ignatios of Hungary and Wallachia is kept. - IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Lemnos and Saint Eustratios.
Great Solemn Vespers in the Holy Church of the Annunciation of the Mother of God of Moudros. Moreover, a public lecture will be delivered by Mr Emmanuel Roccos, high-school teacher and Principal. - IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Phokis.
Divine Liturgy and Doxology in the Holy Monastery of Elijah the Prophet at Parnassis, whence Bishop Isaiah of Salona blessed the launch of the Revolution. - IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Triphylia and Olympia.
Event dedicated to the Revolution of 1821 in Siderokastron of Triphylia and another one dedicated to the heroic Albanian-speaking drehs / drejtë’s
THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 2021, FEAST OF THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE MOTHER OF GOD
- IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Methymna.
Online event with a concert of Byzantine Music. - IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Phokis.
Archieratical Divine Liturgy and Memorial Prayer for Bishop Isaiah of Salona, Martyr of the Nation. - IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Phthiotis.
Archieratical Divine Liturgy in the celebrating Holy Metropolitan Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Mother of God of Lamia. - IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Veroia, Naoussa and Campania.
Public lecture on the subject: “The Defender General of the Nation of the Greeks”. Speaker: Constantinos Holevas, political scientist, writer.
VENUE: Holy Church of Saint Antonios, Patron Saint of Veroia. - IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Zakynthos
Lecture |Ioannis Demetis, writer, researcher: “The church of the Latin Saint George, cradle and starting point of the Society of Friends”
SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 2021
- IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Larissa and Tyrnavos.
Due to the pandemic, the Conference planned on the subject: “The contribution of Larisseans to the common Struggle of the Nation” will not take place physically and the texts of the papers will be published in the “Achillios’ City” review of the Holy Metropolitanate. - IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Lemnos and Saint Eustratios.
Online public lecture on the subject: “The hero Constantinos Kanaris, fire ship captain of the Aegean” by Ms Lila Papademetriou, philologist, municipal councillor and Chair of the Legal Entity for Culture and Sports of the Municipality of Kephissia.
SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 2021
- IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Thebes and Levadeia.
Regional event of Mainland Greece (except for Attica), in the presence of HB Ieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and all Greece.
Divine Liturgy and Memorial Service for Bishop Isaiah of Salona, Martyr of the Nation, in the Holy Monastery of Hosios Loukas, Bœotia. - IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Phthiotis.
Online public lecture on the subject: “The Kollyvades Movement”.
MONDAY, MARCH 29, 2021
- IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Metropolitanate of Zakynthos
Lecture | Dionysios Zapheiropoulos, theologian, teacher: “The 18-year-old Neomartyr Theophilos, seed from Zakynthos for the tree of the National Uprising”
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 2021
- IMPLEMENTING BODY: Holy Archdiocese of Athens.
Holy Vigil and Mass of the Presanctified in the Holy Church of Saint Demetrios of Arms in commemoration of the miracle of the rescue of the Fighters of the Revolution by Saint Demetrios, Great Martyr, which took place in the aforementioned Holy Church.
VENUE: Athens.
Detailed information about each event with the relevant contact coordinates (links) enabling online attendance will be announced in time.
