The inauguration of the first church in Greece dedicated to Saint Porfyrios Kavsokalyvitis was performed by His All-Holiness Bartholomew, the Ecumenical Patriarch.

The Ecumenical Patriarch arrived at the newly-built church after the end of the Divine Liturgy on the morning of Sunday, 4 October, 2015, at the Metropolitan Church of Saint Paraskevi, Langada.

At the Inauguration Ceremony, a special place was accorded to the holy icons which had been brought by refugees from their ancestral homelands in Asia Minor and the Black Sea region.

Snapshots from the Inauguration Ceremony.

After the inauguration, His All-Holiness Bartholomew, the Ecumenical Patriarch moved on to the historical area of Liti, where he opened the spiritual centre of the parish church of Saint Athanasios.

The spiritual centre is dedicated to the recently canonized Saints Akakios and Damaskinos the Studite, Bishops of Liti and Rentini.

His All-Holiness also opened the renovated church of the Life-Receiving Spring and the nearby Sacred Grove, which was dedicated to Our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God.