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The Metropolitan of Ierissos, Mount Athos and Adrameri Theoklitos tests positive for the coronavirus, following an official announcement from the Diocese.
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An alarm has been triggered in hierarchical circles after the announcement of the news that one of the metropolitans who participated in the Divine Liturgy and later in the eulogy made in Agios Dimitrios, in the presence of the President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou, tested positive for the coronavirus.
The speech of the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Ierissos, Mount Athos and Adrameri Theoklitos who, as mentioned in an announcement from the Holy Metropolis, presented symptoms on October 30 and in the coronavirus test he underwent, was diagnosed positive, as reported thesstoday.gr.
Concern in the Church for October 26
Naturally, the news alarmed the representatives of the Church since in the solemn Divine Liturgy of October 26 in Thessaloniki, the day of the feast of the patron saint of Thessaloniki Agios Dimitrios, several hierarchs participated – apart from Mr. Theoklitos – among them the Metropolitan. Litis and Rentinis Ioannis, Grevenon David, Trikki and Stagi Chrysostomos and Filippon Neapoleos and Thassos Stefanos. In fact, most of them don’t wear protective masks.
At the same time, outside the Holy Temple, hundreds of Thessalonians had gathered, waiting, in several cases without even keeping the necessary distances, to worship the icon of Saint Demetrius or to receive communion.
The announcement of the case to the Metropolitan
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“The Holy Metropolis announces that since yesterday Friday 30the In October, our Most Reverend Metropolitan, Mr. Theoklitos, presented with symptoms of Oososis.
Therefore, he passed the COVID-19 test and came back positive.
After that, His Eminence remains in quarantine as advised by his Doctors and, of course, the Offices of the Holy Metropolis, as ὁ EODY Decides for Koronaios, will remain closed for fourteen days, to prevent the dispersal of ῦοῦ.
Take care of yourselves, put a mask inside and outside the Holy Temples, and the Metropolitan asks all of us to pray for him, as he should for himself.
Ἐκ τῆς⁇ ερᾶς Μητροπόλεως ».
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