Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew meets with the Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and
All Greece, in Athens, May 22, 2019. (Photo by Eurokinissi/Christos
Bonis)
CONSTANTINOPLE – His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
expressed his fraternal wishes to his Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of
Athens and All Greece for good health and a speedy recovery.
Archbishop Ieronymos underwent a successful operation on Saturday
April 4 at the Onassis Cardiac Centre in Kallithea, a suburb of Athens.
Specifically, the doctors installed a pacemaker while the Archbishop was
given local anesthesia.
The Archbishop was discharged from the hospital on Sunday April 5.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew called the Chief Secretary of the
Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, Bishop Philotheos of Oreoi, and
asked him to convey his warm wishes to Archbishop Ieronymos, who is
currently on the road to recovery.