The Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew will serve at the historic church of St. Charalambos of the formerly mighty Metropolis of Krini in Cesme, on the eve of Saint’s Feast on February 9, 2020.
The church, which had protected thousands of Greeks in the peninsula of Erythres during the persecution of 1922, reopened for the first time on February 10, 2016 in the presence of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.