On 14th June 2008,His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, presided at Great vespers at the Holy Patriarchal Church of St Nicholas in Cairo . His beatitude was assisted by the Patriarchal Vicar in Cairo , His Grace Nikodimos of Nitria.
On the Sunday of Pentecost, His Beatitude officiated at the Divine Liturgy and preached the homily at the same church again assisted by His Grace Nikodimos.
During this Eucharistic Synaxis which was attended by representatives of the Greek Embassy in Cairo,the Consulate of Greece and the Hellenic Community of Cairo,His Beatitude awarded the rank of Great Ecclesiarch to Archimandrite Isidore Salakos,Parish Priest of the Holy Church of the Theotokos in Heliopolis, Cairo, and ordained as a reader Mr John Gianniotakis, from the Patriarchal School of Athanasios the Great n Alexandria.
On 16th June 2008, the Feast of the Holy Spirit, His Beatitude attended the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Monastery of St George in Old Cairo, after which he departed for Alexandria .
