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For Immediate Release
July 20, 2005

Contact:  Nikki Stephanopoulos
Tel.:  212.570.3588

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to Visit United States in January 2006

New York - His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America has announced that
His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will visit the Greek
Orthodox Archdiocese of America and specifically the Metropolis of Atlanta,
headed by Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta, on January 4-8, 2006.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who is the spiritual leader of over 250
million Orthodox Christians worldwide, will preside over the centennial
Epiphany celebration in Tarpon Springs, FL,  and will also commemorate the
centennial of the St. Nicholas Cathedral in Tarpon Springs during a
Patriarchal Divine Liturgy.  This is the first time that an Ecumenical
Patriarch visits the Tarpon Springs area for the festivities associated
with the celebration of Epiphany.

Epiphany commemorates the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River by St. John
the Baptist.  The annual service in Tarpon Springs is recognized as one on
the largest Epiphany Celebrations and attracts tens of thousands of people
on the Bayou for the Blessing of the Water and the dive for the recovery of
the precious Cross by the young men of the community.

Following his stay in Tarpon Springs, His All Holiness will visit the Holy
Trinity Cathedral in New Orleans, LA, the first Greek Orthodox Community in
America established during the Civil War in 1864.

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