The Incarnation of our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ was celebrated with due splendor and solemnity in the Holy Metropolitan Church of Agioi Anargyros in Nea Ionia.
On the day of the Christmas holiday, Sunday 25 December 2022, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Nea Ionia, Philadelphia, Heraklion and Chalkidon etc. Gabriel officiated at the procession of Orthros and then celebrated the Solemn Divine Liturgy, flanked by clerics of the Holy Metropolis.
It was attended by the MPs Mr. George Kalantzis and George Koumoutsakos, the Mayor of Nea Ionia Ms. Despina Thomaidou, members of the Board of Directors. municipality's, the president of KE.MI.PO. of the Municipality of Nea Ionia Mr. Loukas Christodoulou, authorities of the city of Nea Ionia, representatives of refugee associations and a crowd of believers.
Before the end of the Divine Liturgy, Panos. Archbishop of the Holy Metropolis Archbishop Epifanios Arvanitis read the Message of His Eminence for the Christmas holiday.
Subsequently, o His Holiness addressed to the dense congregation festive wishes and paternal exhortations for a good and blessed Christmas full of the light and grace of the Incarnate Christ.
