Sunday, January 18, 2015

GOC Greek Church in Sweden: Nativity Holiday in Stockholm

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GOC of  Greece: Christmas Holiday in Stockholm

Author: Vera nun incl. January 17, 2015. Posted in CPI Greece (Views: 17)
Stockholm Diocese (GOC Greece) visited at Christmas Metropolitan Cyprian of Oropos and Fili. He came to Sweden from Athens in the evening of January 5, 2015, together with one of the monks of the monastery Fili - Fr. George.





After visiting the church of St. Constantine and Helen, in Stockholm, Metropolitan. Cyprian was sent to a seriously ill Bishop John Makariupolisu in his cell.



On Christmas Eve morning in the church of Sts. Constantine and Helen in Stockholm was served the Royal Hours and Vespers with the Liturgy of St. Basil the Great.


On Christmas Eve, the evening service began at 20.00 with a procession of the icon of the Nativity.







At two o'clock in the morning there ended the services with the Divine Liturgy and with a brief sermon.

Some of the believers who participated in the 6-hour Agripnii.[vigil].

On Christmas day evening there held a meeting and a spiritual conversation with Metropolitan Cyprian (in the parish hall). 

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