The Enthronement and installation ceremony of the new Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain Nikitas, will take place on Saturday 27th of July, at the Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom, Romfea News reports.
It is also noted that giant screens will be in place outside the Church so that anyone can follow the enthronement ceremony.
On Sunday 28th of July, at 9.00 am there will be an official hierarchical liturgy at the Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom.
Following the liturgy, Archbishop Nikitas will receive the flock at the Crypt of the Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom.
Who is the new Archbishop Nikitas?
Metropolitan Nikitas (Lulias) of Dardanelles, Exarch of All Hellespont, was born in Tampa, Florida, United States in 1955.
He studied at the University of Florida, from which he received his degree in Religion (1976).
He then attended the Theological School of the Holy Cross of Boston, where he graduated in 1980 and then completed postgraduate studies at the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1982).
He was ordained a Deacon in 1985 by Archbishop Jacob of America and in the same year he became a Presbyter.
He served in Saints Constantine and Helen (Merriville, IN) Church, and, since 1987, in the Holy Diocese of Chicago as Secretary.
In 1988 he received the Archimandrite’s officium and became a Protosyncellus at the same Bishopric.
In St. Petersburg, Russia, he completed his studies in History and Russian language. He taught selected courses on Orthodoxy at the Loyola University of Chicago.
On the 2nd of December 1996, he was unanimously elected as Metropolitan of Hong Kong and ordained on the 14th of the same month at the Patriarchal Church of St. George.
His enthronement took place at St. Luca Cathedral in Hong Kong on the 12th of January, 1997 and became the first regular priest of the newly-established Hong Kong Metropolis, and then he was appointed at the Dardanelles Metropolis in 2007.
It is finally worth mentioning that Metropolitan Nikitas is the Director of the Berkeley USA Patriarchal Orthodox Institute “Patriarch Athenagoras” in Berkeley, USA.
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