Today, December 26, 202 in the early hours of the morning, His Eminence Metropolitan Symeon of Fthiotida, Greece arrived in Uganda via Ethiopia, landing at Entebbe International Airport, in order to concelebrate on Sunday, 28 December in the consecration of the newly built Church of Saint Nicholas in the city of Gulu, in Northern Uganda.
Following an invitation, canonical permission, and the venerable blessing of His Beatitude the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, Theodore II, His Eminence Symeon was received by the energetic and tireless shepherd of the newly established Diocese of Gulu, His Grace Bishop Nektarios of Gulu and Northern Uganda.
Accompanying His Eminence Metropolitan Symeon of Fthiotida on this brief missionary journey is a delegation of clerical collaborators, consisting of Archimandrite Fr. Ephraim Triantafyllopoulos, Protosyncellus of the Holy Metropolis of Fthiotida; Archimandrite Fr. Herodion Rizos, Preacher of the Holy Metropolis of Fthiotida; Protopresbyter Fr. Ioannis Eleftheriou, Director of the Holy Episcopal Residence of Thermopylae and Mendenitsa; and Protopresbyter Fr. Dimitrios Nasopoulos, Deputy Director of the General Philoptochos Fund of the Holy Metropolis of Fthiotida.
Metropolitan Symeon Fthiotida received by the Metropolitan of Kampala
Before embarking on the journey to Northern Uganda, Metropolitan Symeon together with his entourage paid a courtesy visit to His Eminence Metropolitan Jeronymos of Kampala at the Headquarters of the Uganda Orthodox Church in Namungoona who with brotherly love in Christ received them and toured around the Metropolis center.
His Eminence Metropolitan Symeon of Fthiotida will be joined by other Hierarchies on Sunday 28, in the service of the consecration of the Saint Nicholas Temple, which is currently depictured as a manifestation of the beauty of Orthodox Faith in the new Diocese of Gulu and Northern Uganda.
