The Metropolitan of Kitrous, His Eminence Georgios, spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency this week over his recent visit to the Middle East country of Syria, for the ordination of a new Auxiliary Bishop of the Patriarchate of Antioch, His Grace Mousa of Larissa, modern-day Shaizar in Arabic. The ordination service took place at the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Dormition of the Theotokos in the Damascus.
His Eminence also referred to the publication of a new book by the Metropolis of Kitrous and the Pieria prefecture of northern Greece, on the subject of the Greek War of Independence.