With hymns and New Year's melodies in Greek, Arabic, English, Swahili and African, the priests and hierarchs of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, together with African seminaries, wished the Primate of the African Orthodox Church Theodore B., for the new Year 2021, at the seat of the Second Throne Patriarchate of Orthodoxy, in Alexandria, on New Year's Eve for the coming of the new year……
The moment is moving, that the Alexandrian Primate expressed a big thank you to Greece for all its support, addressed to Consul General Athanasios Kotsionis.
Equally special moment, when Patriarch Theodoros referred to the Vice President of the Hellenic Community of Alexandria Andreas Vafiadis, in whose face he greeted the entire Greek ambassador parish of the city of Alexander the Great for her support of the Throne of the Apostle Mark.
She was special, Nevertheless, the report of Patriarch Theodore and his warm thanks to the President of Egypt Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, by decision of which a large area is granted to the new Administrative Capital of Egypt, to build a Greek Orthodox church, which will be dedicated to Saint John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria, with the Patriarchate of Alexandria acquiring its own home in the newest capital of the world.
The Patriarch of Alexandria Theodoros also referred in particular to the global pandemic COVID-19, noting how many casualties it has already caused across Africa, knowing unfortunately at this time, great upheaval, as he is constantly informed by the local Hierarchs of the missionary Church of Alexandria.
"The great scourge that afflicts our humanity, I wish from my heart, after the few hours we will enter the new year 2021, to be a past ", stressed the Alexandrian Primate.
And Patriarch Theodoros V.’ pointed out: "I'm sure with the vaccination, slowly – slowly, everything will pass, because life does not stop. Life is a river that runs. Life is a light you want to see. Life is a sun that warms you and you want to warm up, because we never love the cold of death ".
"My prayer and my hope is, the 2021 to bring us to another new world, free from the global pandemic of 2020 ", concluded the Primate of the African Orthodox Church.
End, Patriarch Theodoros, like every year, sang the traditional New Year carols "Archiminia and Archichronia…», after cutting the first royal pie.
At the event at the beginning of the new year 2021, with the great vespers and the report of the work of the Alexandrian Church, in the Great Hall of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, the Primate of Alexandria addressed and thanked on behalf of the Holy Synod, The Patriarchal Commissioner of Alexandria, Metropolitan of Nafratida Narcissus, emphasizing the importance of the African flock in the Alexandrian Church.
"The Patriarchate of Alexandria is the nest and refuge of all the peoples and languages of Africa. Let's wish, the 2021 be blessed and free from the pandemic of 2020 ", concluded the Alexandrian Prelate Theodoros.