The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Tanta, Egypt, reopened on Friday, during a ceremony in the presence of the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II.
The historic cathedral served the faithful of a once flourishing ethnic Greek community, roughly midway between Cairo and Alexandria.
Following a merger of the Greek community of Tanta with its sister group in Cairo, the cathedral passed into the possession of the latter, which has allocated a significant sum for the building’s renovation.
Photos: Katia Tsimplaki
In a related development in Athens this week, the Brotherhood of Officials of the Patriarchate Alexandria, “the Apostle Mark”, was held at the St. Athanasios Cathedral in the Ano Kypseli district of Athens. The Cathedral is a dependency of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa.
Speaking to the Orthodoxia News Agency, the Metropolitan of Guinea, His Eminence Georgios, a spokesman of the Alexandria Patriarchate, referred to the new year, which Patriarch Theodoros has dedicated to the memory of St. Nektarios, on the occasion of the 100 years since the saint’s repose.
