Dimitrios Touloupas

His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia met with the Mayor of the northern Athens district of Maroussi, Dr. George Patoulis, who also presides of Greece’s Central Union of Municipalities, during the latter’s visit to Stockholm, welcoming him to the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. George.

The feast of the great-martyr St. George the Trophy Bearer was celebrated with Byzantine grandeur at the Cathedral of Stockholm, which bears his name, on Sunday, April 23, 2017. Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia presided over the archieratical Divine Liturgy, assisted by the Very Rev.

The Feast of Orthodoxy was celebrated in the Saint George Cathedral in Stockholm, in the presence of Metropolitan of Sweden and Scandinavia Kleopas.
The Divine Liturgy was conducted in six languages: Greek, Swedish, Russian, Serbian, French and English. The psalms were sang by the Cathedral’s cantor Dimitrios Kalpakidis and the churche’s byzantine choir.

The efforts of mayors of Lesbos, Greece and Lampedusa, Italy during the ongoing refugee crisis was recognized with the most official way as they were awarded the 2016 Olof Palme Prize.

As we become cognizant of our duty in the face of the daily drama facing myriads of our fellow men and women, and in an attempt to mobilize our forces to preserve “our common natural and cultural home,” His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden approached His Eminence Archbishop Benjamin Atas of the Syriac Aramean Community of the Diaspora to express his active solidarity and love for the lat