The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Sunday afternoon officiated at the First Paraclesis to the All Holy Theotokos, the Virgin Mary.
Earlier in the morning, on the occasion of the feast day of St. Solomon, whose holy relics are kept in the Patriarchal cathedral, His All Holiness presided over the Divine Liturgy, which was performed by the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Metropolitan Joachim of Proussa.
