It was celebrated with every ceremony and according to the centuries-old tradition, today, in the Holy Cathedral of the First Throne Church of Constantinople, Orthodox Sunday………
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew preceded the Divine Liturgy, supported by the Archbishops Elder Chalcedon Emmanuel, Guinea George, from the Patriarchate of Alexandria, Chernihiv and Nizhin Efstratio, from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metron and Athyron Dimitrios, Karpathos and Kasos Ambrosios, Proikonnisou Joseph, Sweden Cleopa and Australia Makarios. During, The ordination of the elected Metropolitan of Forty Churches Andreas to the Bishop and the ordination of the monk Theodoros as an elder took place, to whom, after the Dismissal, His Holiness awarded the Order of the Great Protosyggelos.
Prior to the ordination of the elected Metropolitan of the Thracian Province of Forty Churches, the Ecumenical Patriarch, addressed to him, but also to the Hieromonk Theodoros, paternal reasons for building and instructing for the new ministry mission assigned to them by the Mother Church.
At the end of the Divine Liturgy, the newly ordained Metropolitan, after receiving the Hierarchical Mitra and the staff from the hands of His Holiness, ascended the Throne and performed the dismissal.
Immediately after, His Holiness ordained him in the Office of M.. Protosyggelou the newly ordained elder Theodoros.
Subsequently, the Ecumenical Patriarch, with the collaborating High Priests, performed the established Trisagion for the rest of the souls of all "those who fought for and for the orthodox faith and ended in it".
The procession of the Holy Icons followed, in the courtyard of the Patriarchate, during which the Ecumenical Patriarch blessed the faithful.