His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I Celebrates the Clean Monday at the Phanar – The Beginning of Great Lent

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On Clean Monday, 23 February 2026, at midday, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I received, according to established tradition, the hierarchs of the Ecumenical Throne residing in Constantinople. On the occasion of the beginning of Holy and Great Lent, they exchanged brotherly greetings in a spirit of mutual forgiveness.

Later the same day, he presided from the Patriarchal Throne at the sacred service of Great Compline in the venerable Patriarchal Church at the Phanar…

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