Election of a New Metropolitan by the Ecumenical Patriarchate
On Tuesday, November 27, 2013, the Sacred and Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate elected Bishop Athenagoras of Sinope as the New Metropolitan of Belgium. His Grace Bishop Athenagoras of Sinope, (in the world Yves Peckstadt) was born on the 24th March 1962 in Ghent (Belgium), as a son of Archpriest Ignace Peckstadt (Orthodox parish of Ghent) and Marie-Thérèse Janssens.