Ecumenical Patriarch at Soumela Monastery in Trabzon

Ecumenical Patriarch at Soumela Monastery in Trabzon

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos (Bartholomew), accompanied by Archbishop of America Demetrios, officiated at this year's...

Ecumenical Patriarch at Soumela Monastery in Trabzon
Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos (Bartholomew), accompanied by Archbishop of America Demetrios, officiated at this year's Dormition of Virgin religious service at the historic Panaghia Soumela Monastery in Trabzon province, on Turkey's Black Sea coast.

The occasion marked the second consecutive year that the Patriarch officiates at a service on Aug. 15 at the specific monastery, the second such event since the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey. ana-mpa

 

In June 2010, the Turkish government accepted the Patriarchate抯 request to hold mass in the monastery, which was converted into a museum and has not operated as a Christian place of worship since 1923.

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