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July 27, 2026 · 1 min read

Agios Panteleimon gathered hundreds of Serraians again this year, who came to his temple to glorify God and honor his holy memory. The historic Church of Agios Panteleimonos is located on one of the highest points of the city, at the foot of the ancient Greek and Byzantine acropolis, where it dominates from the first Christian centuries, like an "angel", embracing with its imaginary wings the most Greek city of Serres, today, Monday, July 27, 2026, a solemn Thea Liturgy, officiated by the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Serres and Nigritis, Mr. Theologu. The divine word of the feast was preached by the panosiol with a theological and powerful speech. Archimandrite Father Gavriel Paliouras, Protosygello of the Serrai Church. Before the dismissal of the Divine Mystagogy, His Holiness, addressing the pious faithful, who, yesterday and today at the solemn Vespers, came in hundreds to worship the holy icon and the fragment of the graceful relic of the brave martyr of Christ, spoke of the honored Saint, whose name, as characteristically he said, it proves the quality of his faith, the…

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Николай КозловIt was a good service, since so many people gathered for both the all-night vigil and the liturgy. I especially remember how the bishop said about the name of the saint - that it itself shows the quality of faith. In Samara, we also reverence Panteleimon; every year we gather in a church on the outskirts.
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