On Monday, November 21, 2011, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided over the Divine Liturgy with members of the Holy and Sacred Synod and other Hierarchs on the occasion of the feast of the Entrance of the Theotokos into the Temple. The service was held at Panagia of Pera in Istanbul, where His Eminence Konstantinos, the first Metropolitan of Singapore, was ordained. In attendance were the Consul General of Greece in Istanbul, the Hon. Nikolaos Matthioudakis, and hundreds of pilgrims from Greece and elsewhere.
photos:Nikos Manginas