Publication of the First Metropolitan Kallistos Memorial Lecture

The The Friends of Mount Athos are pleased to announce the publication of the first Metropolitan Kallistos Memorial Lecture delivered on 16 January 2025 at the Greek Orthodox St Sophia Cathedral, London.

Metropolitan Kallistos was a hierarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and an assistant bishop of the archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain. He was also one of the founders of the Friends of Mount Athos and served for many years as its President.

Archbishop Nikitas, a friend and colleague of the late Metropolitan, was elected Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain in 2019 and President of the Conference of European Churches in 2023. He serves the Ecumenical Patriarchate in numerous ways including as Coordinator of the Patriarchal Task Force on Human Trafficking and Modern-day Slavery; Chairman of the Committee on Youth; and Co-Chair of the Elijah Inter-Faith Foundation. In his lecture, Archbishop Nikitas reflected on the enormous difference between those who visit Mount Athos as true pilgrims and those who come primarily as tourists.

Copies of this first Metropolitan Kallistos lecture may be ordered through at www.athosfriends.org/books priced at £5.00 plus p&p or by post from FoMA Publications, 58 Manor Road, Woodstock, OX20 1XJ, enclosing a cheque payable to the Friends of Mount Athos.

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