The statement comes after reports that several monasteries had considered boycotting the Prime Minister’s visit in protest of Greece’s legalization of same-sex marriage and adoption earlier last year.
St. Calistrat was canonized in July 2024, together with 15 other martyrs, confessors, and ascetics of the 20th century.
The festive date comes amidst the state’s two-year campaign to kick the Church out of its own monastery. The case is currently being heard by Chernigov courts.
The Estonian Orthodox Christian Church and Pükhtitsa Monastery have filed complaints with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) after, in their view, domestic legal remedies have been exhausted.
The hierarchs and representatives of the entire Orthodox Church in America celebrated the newly glorified St. Olga of Alaska last week.