His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatios of Pentapolis, retired Hierarch of
the Patriarchate of Alexandria, fell asleep in the Lord today, 9th
November 2017.
The late Hierarch, born George Mandelides in Edessa in 1930, where he
completed his schooling. As a holder of a degree from the Theological
Academy of Athens in 1952, he was ordained Deacon in 1968, Presbyter and
Archimandrite in 1969. For forty years he served as a preacher
(originally as a layman and member of the Brotherhood of Theologians
“Sotir”, and then from 1969 as a priest in the Holy Metropolis of
Larissa, until 1998, contributing a rich pastoral effort, as an
assistant to his fiery missionary elder, Archimandrite Chariton Pnevmatikakis, in Kananga, Congo. In 1997, he was placed in charge of
the missionary squad, by His Eminence Timotheos, Metropolitan of Central Africa.
On 14th March 2003 (passing of the late Timotheos), he was
elected by the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, as
Metropolitan of Central Africa, ordained in the Patriarchal Church of St
Savvas on 16th March 2003, by the late Pope and Patriarch Petros VII of
Alexandria. On 4th March 2010, he resigned for health reasons and His
Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa,
honorably elevated him on 23 November of the same year to titular
Metropolitan of Pentapolis, given him for the first time the title of
the Diocese of St Nektarios the Wonderworkep, Bishop of Pentapolis.
From that time, up until the day of his passing, 9th November 2017, the
day on which our Church celebrates the memory of St Nektarios of Pentapolis, he gave himself to the service of the Missions, remaining in
the ramparts and giving himself for the glory of God and His Church.
His funeral service will take place on Saturday 11th November 2017 at
11.00a.m. in the Holy Church of St Nicholas Pefkakia, and the interment
of the late Metropolitan will take place at the Zographos Cemetery.
May
the memory of the ardent Missionary and honest worker of the Gospel,
Metropolitan Ignatios of Pentapolis, be eternal!
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Death! Death! DEATH!
Death is Unnatural
A revelation on the torments of hell to St. Makarios the Great
Bones, Bodies and Belief
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