Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew kneeled at the Gate of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, once again, to honor Patriarch Gregory E, as every year on this day.
After the completion of the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Holy Gifts at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in the Phanar, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew headed to the Gate of the Patriarchate where Patriarch Gregory V had been hanged by the Ottomans.
Every year, today, on April 10, the day of remembrance of the sacrifice of St. Patriarch Gregory V, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew refers a prayer and lights a candle of gratitude, faith and hope in front of the main closed Gate of the Patriarchate in the Phanar, where the great national Hieromartyr died.
Τη μνήμη του προκατόχου του Γρηγορίου Ε’ τίμησε ο Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης Βαρθολομαίος
Τη μνήμη του προκατόχου του Γρηγορίου Ε’ τίμησε ο Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης ΒαρθολομαίοςΤο πρωί της Παρασκευής, 10ης Απριλίου 2020, όπως κάθε χρόνο, ο Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης Βαρθολομαίος άναψε κερί και κατέθεσε ανοιξιάτικα άνθη στην κλειστή Πύλη του Πατριαρχείου, τόπο του απαγχονισμού του Ιερομάρτυρα προκατόχου του Γρηγορίου Ε’ τιμώντας τη μνήμη του. Ο Πατριάρχης, μέσα σε συγκινητική σιωπή, περιστοιχούμενος από τα μέλη της Πατριαρχικής Αυλής, γονυπετής προσευχήθηκε λίγα λεπτά στον ιερό αυτό τόπο για το παρόν και το μέλλον της Μεγάλης του Χριστού Εκκλησίας, για την πνευματική προκοπή του ποιμνίου του, αλλά και για την προστασία της ανθρωπότητας από την πανδημία του Κορονοϊού, ευχόμενος γρήγορα αυτή να λήξει με την εύρεση καταλλήλου φαρμάκου και εμβολίου.
Gepostet von Ecumenical Patriarchate am Freitag, 10. April 2020
Today, Friday, April 10, eve of the Raising of Lazarus and before Palm Sunday, our Holy Church honors the memory of Hieromartyr Gregory V, Patriarch of Constantinople, who was born in Dimitsana, Arcadia.
He went to Smyrna, to stay with his uncle, the ecclesiarch Meletios, and to attend classes at the Evangelical School. He then took philosophy classes in Patmos island. However, his desire for monastic life led him to the Monastery of Strofades, where he was tonsured a monk and was initiated into monastic exercise. Later, Metropolitan Prokopios of Smyrna called him and ordained him his archdeacon. As a Presbyter, he returned to Dimitsana. On August 19, 1785, he was elected Ecumenical Patriarch.
Gregory remained on the patriarchal throne until December 1798, when he was deposed by the Sublime Porte for he was deemed incapable of maintaining the subjugation of the Christian peoples under the Turkish yoke and was exiled to Mount Athos.
The period of his obligatory stay in the Garden of the Virgin Mary gave him the opportunity to delve deeper into self-knowledge and theology. He was again called to the Ecumenical Throne, but was subjugation exiled from the Sublime Porte.
In 1818 he was called for the third time to the Ecumenical Throne, where he remained until April 10, 1821, Easter Sunday, during which the Ottomans hanged him at the main Gate of the Patriarchate. This Gate remains closed to this day in memory of the hanged Patriarch.
On April 10, 1921, he was declared Saint and was included in the list of saints of the Orthodox Church. His holy relic is found in the Metropolitan Church of Athens. Pilgrims worship it praying for Romiosini and all the martyrs of the City on the Seven Hills.