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Metropolis of Sweden’s Sunday School Classes Commencement
Dear parents, Sunday School teachers, and beloved children, On the occasion of the beginning of the new ecclesiastical and school year, we are pleased to announce that, starting on Sunday, September 14, 2025, our parishes’ Sunday School classes will commence. We kindly ask parents who accompany their children to occupy the front pews of our…
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Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden, The Divine Liturgy in the Swedish Language
The Divine Liturgy is the “heart” of the life of the Church and the revelation of the Kingdom of God within the world. In the Divine Liturgy, the Word of God becomes accessible to the people, and the people, in turn, offer themselves to God through praise and thanksgiving. In this theological reality, language is…
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A Song by ABBA, Dedicated to the Ecumenical Patriarch
H.E. Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden’s Homily,welcoming His All-Holiness Bartholomew,Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch,at the Thyranoixia Service of the St. George Cathedral of Stockholm Sunday, August 24, 2025 Your All-Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch,Your Eminences,Rev. Members of the Clergy,Your Excellencies,Archons and Distinguished Guests from the United States of…
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H.E. Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden’s Homily on the 12th Sunday of Matthew
St. George Cathedral of Stockholm Sunday, August 31, 2025 Dearly Beloved Brothers & Sisters in Christ, In today’s Gospel reading, we learn about a young man seeking eternal life, out of earnest desire. Christ first gently guides him toward the commandments; what the Mosaic Law demands. St. John Chrysostom sees in this exchange no pretense.…
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Θεία Λειτουργία με τη Βυζαντινή Χορωδία Ρωμανός ο Μελωδός στον Καθεδρικό Ναό Αγ. Γεωργίου Στοκχόλμης
Κυριακή 31/08/2025 Όρθρος και Θεία Λειτουργία στον Καθεδρικό Ναό Αγίου Γεωργίου Στοκχόλμης χοροστατούντος του Σεβασμιωτάτου Μητροπολίτου Σουηδίας και Πάσης Σκανδιναβίας κ. Κλεόπα.
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“Romanos Melodos” Concert at Saint George Cathedral of Stockholm
On the evening of Friday, August 29, 2025, the Byzantine Choir “Romanos o Melodos (the Melodist)” of the Holy Metropolis of Limassol, Cyprus, presented a Byzantine concert at the Saint George Cathedral of Stockholm, under the direction of the Reverend Protopresbyter Fr. Nikolaos Lymbouridis. The choir was composed of the esteemed chanters Mr. Byron Bryonis,…
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Dearly Beloved Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, Volunteers and Collaborators of our Local Church in Scandinavia, “Glory to God for all things”! (St. John Chrysostom)
Borrowing the words of this great Father of our Church, a true river of honey-flowing wisdom, and in the blessed afterglow of the lofty and grace-filled visit to our missionary Eparchy by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, I raise up thanksgiving to our Heavenly Father, who has gifted our local Church with willing co-workers—all of…
