Τhe First Throne Church of Constantinople celebrated its Thronal Feast by honoring the memory of its founder, St. Andrew the Apostle the First-Called Monday, November 30. His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew officiated at the Divine Liturgy with co-celebrants Metropolitans Theoliptos of Ikonion and Maximos of Silyvria.
A three-member official Delegation of the Church of Rome was present at the festivities headed by Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. The Delegation of the Autonomous Orthodox Church of Finland, consisting of Archimandrite of the Ecumenical Throne Sergios, Abbot of the Monastery of New Valaam, and Protopresbyter Timo Tynkkynen prayed together with the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal, who was accompanied by ministers and high-ranking officials of his government.
At the end of the Divine Liturgy, the Ecumenical Patriarch addressed the official Delegation of the Church of Rome, expressing the thanks of the Church of Constantinople and himself to Pope Francis of Rome for the presence of his representatives at the Thronal Feast despite the difficulties still the world faces by the coronavirus pandemic.
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