With the completion of thirty-five years of episcopal service and forty-five years of ministry in the Vineyard of the Lord, Collaborators, Friends, Classmates, and Associates of His Eminence the Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, we considered it our duty to publish a Tribute Volume, as a minimal expression of honor, respect, and love, towards the Reverend Hierarch, the spiritual leader, the scholar, the fighter for Orthodoxy, the fiery preacher of the Gospel, and tireless servant of the Mysteries of the Church of Christ, who has served since childhood with patience, dedication, courage, and inexhaustible zeal.
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