{"id":1164,"date":"2025-12-26T12:24:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T12:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orthodoxiapost.com\/?p=1164"},"modified":"2025-12-26T12:24:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T12:24:35","slug":"metropolitan-symeon-of-fthiotida-on-a-visit-to-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orthodoxiapost.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/metropolitan-symeon-of-fthiotida-on-a-visit-to-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Symeon of Fthiotida in Greece on a visit to Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"748\" src=\"https:\/\/orthodoxiapost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Metropolitan-Symeon-Fthiotida-Uganda.jpg\" alt=\"Metropolitan Symeon Fthiotida Uganda\" class=\"wp-image-1168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxiapost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Metropolitan-Symeon-Fthiotida-Uganda.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/orthodoxiapost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Metropolitan-Symeon-Fthiotida-Uganda-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxiapost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Metropolitan-Symeon-Fthiotida-Uganda-1024x709.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/orthodoxiapost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Metropolitan-Symeon-Fthiotida-Uganda-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orthodoxiapost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Metropolitan-Symeon-Fthiotida-Uganda-135x93.jpg 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Metropolitan Symeon Fthiotida received by the Metropolitan of Kampala<\/h3>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/orthodoxiapost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Metropolitan-Symeon-Fthiotida-Uganda-4.jpg\" alt=\"Metropolitan Symeon Fthiotida Uganda\" class=\"wp-image-1165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orthodoxiapost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Metropolitan-Symeon-Fthiotida-Uganda-4.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/orthodoxiapost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Metropolitan-Symeon-Fthiotida-Uganda-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/orthodoxiapost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Metropolitan-Symeon-Fthiotida-Uganda-4-1024x682.jpg 1024w, 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