Telephone communication with the Metropolitan of Ilio, Petroupoleos and Acharnes Athenagoras
The support and sympathy of the Mother Church to all those who are currently being tested by the catastrophic fire in Varybobi, in the Adams and neighboring areas, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew expressed in a telephone conversation he had a while ago with the Metropolitan of Ilios, Petroupoleos and Acharnes Athenagoras.
According to the announcement of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on social media, His Holiness wished God to protect the inhabitants of the endangered areas and to strengthen the fire brigade to extinguish the fire as soon as possible. He asked, in fact, from His Eminence to convey to His Beatitude the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos the feelings of solidarity and support of the Mother Church.
Moreover, Sources of the Ecumenical Patriarchate made it known that the Patriarch is constantly informed about the development of fires and communicates with local actors to whom he expresses his support..