The Feast of the Dormition
TRABZON, Turkey — His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, presided the sixteen-centuries-old Panagia Soumela Monasteries— located high in the Pontic mountains— to concelebrate a historic Divine Liturgy on the Feast Day of the Dormition on August 15, 2022.