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After more than five decades of episcopal ministry, the outgoing archbishop said he would withdraw into prayer while clergy and faithful carry forward the work of the Church and Greek community in Canada.

Speaking at the Monastery of Prophet Elijah in Patras, the metropolitan said remembrance must be joined to a sustained demand over the island’s continuing division and the fate of displaced and missing people.

The dean of Athens’ Metropolitan Cathedral was recognized on his native island for four decades of ministry and public service.

The Metropolitan of Serres and Nigrita said the crime in Cyprus must not be forgotten and expressed solidarity with Cypriots displaced from their ancestral homes.

Senior Trump adviser Massad Boulos told Sinai Church leaders in Cairo that he was ready to support efforts to protect the monastery’s historic and spiritual identity.

The Ecumenical Patriarch urged theologians to engage artificial intelligence, biotechnology and digital change, warning that defensive isolation from contemporary culture risks spiritual withdrawal and renewed fundamentalism in modern Christian life.

The Athens meeting also covered the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s international role and the recent Clergy-Laity Congress of the Archdiocese of America.

The international monastic association met from July 1 to 7 under the theme “The Divine Liturgy as a source of hope.”

The initiative found a need for about 20 pairs of glasses and at least five cataract operations at the psychiatric correctional facility.

Twenty-five Vatican students and staff met Holy Synod officials in Athens as part of a monthlong program on the Greek language and Orthodox tradition.