“PATRISTIC THEOLOGY
AND POST-PATRISTIC HERESY”
SYMPOSIUM OF THE HOLY METROPOLIS OF PIRAEUS
PIRAEUS 2012
OPENING ADDRESS
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
by His Eminence Serafeim, Metropolitan of Piraeus
Your Grace, Bishop Meliton of Marathon, representative of His Beatitude Ieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece,
Your Eminence Damianos, Archbishop of Sinai, Faran and Raitho,
Your Eminence Pavlos, Metropolitan of Glyfada,
Your Eminence Serafeim, Metropolitan of Kythira,
Archimandrite Damianos, Exarch of the Holy Sepulchre in Greece and representative of His Beatitude Theofilos, Patriarch of Jerusalem,
Honourable Minister, representative of the Prime Minister and the Government,
Very Reverend and Reverend Gentlemen,
Monastic Brothers and Sisters,
Honourable members of the Body of Christ,
Blessed Nikodimos, the Athonite, that fragrant blossom of the grace of God and of the tradition of the Kollyvades, wrote the astonishing work “Invisible Warfare” in which he repeatedly refers to the debilitating labours of the vengeful and murderous devil, of whom Saint Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, so eloquently spoke: “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in the heavenly realms…” (Eph. 6, 12)....
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