Holy Metropolitanate of Thebes and Levadeia |Event in the presence of HB Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and all Greece and the former President of the Hellenic Republic Mr Procopios Pavlopoulos

An event to honour the bicentenary of the Greek Revolution was organised by the Holy Metropolitanate of Thebes and Levadeia within the framework of the Synodic and peripheral events organised by the Holy Synod of the Church of the Holy Synod, in the evening of Monday, September 6, 2021, in the Byzantine Holy Monastery of Hosios Loukas of Steirion, in the presence of HB Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and all Greece and the former President of the Hellenic Republic.

In the Katholikon of the Monastery where, 200 years ago, on March 27, 1821, the Revolution was officially declared in Roumeli, a Vespers was performed, with Most Rev. Metropolitan Kyrillos of Kifissia, Amaroussion and Oropos officiating, Most Rev, Metropolitans Theoktistos of Phokis, Gheorghios of Thebes and Levadeia, Nektarios of Argolis, Symeon of Phthiotis, and Agathanghelos of Phanarion co-officiating, and HB the Archbishop jointly praying from the Holy Altar. The hymns of the Vespers were performed by the “Ghermanos the Melodist” Byzantine Choir of the Holy Metropolitanate of Phthiotis. Subsequently, a Memorial Service was carried out by HB the Archbishop before the bust of the National Martyr Bishop Isaiah of Salona, prior to a wreath being laid by His Beatitude and representatives of the local authorities.

Thereafter, Most Rev. Metropolitan Gheorghios of Thebes and Levadeia addressed the participants with a reference to the contribution of the Church, the Monastery of Hosios Loukas and the other Monasteries of our local Church to the Revolution of 1821.

You may wish to read Metropolitan Gheorghios’ address here in its entirety.

There followed a public lecture by the former President of the Hellenic Republic Mr Procopios Pavlopoulos on the subject of “The creation of the Modern Greek State and its international repercussions”, which you may wish to read here in its entirety.

A Byzantine music programme was performed and, at the end, HB the Archbishop extolled the value of the event, thanked the former President for his lecture, and congratulated Most Rev. Metropolitan Gheorghios of Thebes and Levadeia for the excellent organisation of the event.

Except for the Vespers, which took place in the Katholikon, the event was carried out in the courtyard of the Monastery next to the bust of the National Martyr Bishop Isaiah of Salona.

All measures stipulated for the protection from the Coronavirus were observed.