Blessing of the Waters in the Phanar: The celebration of the Epiphany at the Ecumenical Patriarchate – Patriarchal and Synodal Divine Liturgy and Sanctification of Waters

The Holy Epiphany was celebrated with all magnificence today at the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, after Orthros, during which he officiated, performed the great sanctification, and then presided over the Divine Liturgy, co -operators. High Priest Philadelphia and. Meliton, Orthodox Sunday was celebrated with brilliance at Fanari. Nektarios, Commissioner of the Holy Sepulcher in the City, Orthodox Sunday was celebrated with brilliance at Fanari. Irenaeus, Orthodox Sunday was celebrated with brilliance at Fanari. Chrysostom, Kyrenia. Chrysostom, from the Church of Cyprus, and Proussi K. Joachim.
John Bournous attended, Lesvos MP, As a representative of the House of Greeks, Greece's Consul General in the city of Georgia Sultanopoulou, With her husband John Raptakis, Ambassador of Greece to the. Kingdom, Ukraine Consul General in the city of Roman Nedilski, Consulate executives and a multitude of believers from the city and abroad.
After the end of the Divine Liturgy the Ecumenical Patriarch, the priests, The officials and the faithful in the procession went to the waterfront of the Lantern where Panagiotis led the ceremony of the sanctification of the water and the diving of the Holy Cross in the Gulf of Gulf..
In the cold waters of the Kerati, dipped more than 10 Young people from the city and abroad. The Ecumenical Patriarch offered to the young man who caught the cross as a blessing of a golden cross, While blessed and congratulated all swimmers, thanking them for keeping the custom.
It was the first Divine Liturgy that the Ecumenical Patriarch performed after his health adventure .