Died today, November 9th, the Venerable Mons. Bishop Ignatius of Pentapolis, the retired Hierarch of the Patriarchate of Alexandria.
The blessed Archpriest, born in Edessa in 1930, where he studied the Greek letters. He graduated from the Theological School of Athens in 1952, was ordained Deacon in 1968, Elder and Archimandrite in 1969. For forty years he served as a preacher (initially as a layman and member of the Brotherhood of Theologians “The Savior” and then, from 1969, as a clergyman in the Holy Metropolis of Larissa, until 1998, offering a rich pastoral work as an assistant to his ardent missionary elder, Archimandrite Archimandrite, and as an assistant to his fiery missionary elder, Archimandrite Archimandrite, until 1998. Chariton Pneimatakis, in Kananga, Congo. In the year 1997, he was appointed in charge of the missionary team by Mons. He was appointed as the missionary officer of the missionary mission by the Most Reverend Timotheos, Metropolitan of Central Africa. On March 14, 2003 (after the death of the late Timotheos), he was elected by the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, Metropolitan of Central Africa, consecrated in the Patriarchal Church of St. Sava on March 16, 2003, by the late Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria, Peter VII. On March 4, 2010, he resigned for health reasons and the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, Theodore II, honorably elevated him on November 23 of the same year, to the title of titular Metropolitan of Pentapolis, giving him for the first time the title of Bishop of the Diocese of St. Nektarios, Bishop of Pentapolis, the Wonderworker. Since then, until the day of his burial, November 9, 2017, the day on which our Church celebrates St. Nectarios of Pentapolis, he offered himself to the ministry of the mission, remaining on the ramparts and giving of himself for the glory of God and His Church. The Funeral Mass will be held on Saturday, November 11th at 11.00 a.m., at the Holy Church of St. Nicholas Pefkakia, while the burial of the late Metropolitan Ignatius will take place at the Cemetery of Zografou. May the memory of the fiery missionary and honorable worker of the Gospel, Metropolitan Ignatius of Pentapolis be eternal!
From the Patriarchate of Alexandria
