In the upgraded relationship of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Metropolitan Tamasos and Isaia of Mountain, a announcement on behalf of the Metropolitan is mentioned.
According to the announcement, the speech of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew during the ordination of the new deacon Bartholomew of the Holy Monastery of Abvakum of the Holy Metropolis of Tamasos and Orini was significant, reaffirming once again his excellent relationship with Metropolitan Isaiah.
< p>“We thank your spiritual father Agios Tamasos, Mr. Isaiah for his love and respect for the church of Constantinople and its prelates. The presence of the most honorable brother expresses and symbolizes the bond of love between the churches of Constantinople and Cyprus, the long-term relationship of Cyprus with the reigning, the loving cooperation in church matters. The gesture of the new deacon Bartholomew is another blessed link between the ecumenical throne and the church of Cyprus”, the Patriarch said according to the announcement.
It is also reported that “ecclesiastical circles consider that the relations of the Ecumenical Patriarch and Bartholomew and Metropolitan Tamasos and Mountain Isaiah are upgraded and this becomes particularly important a few days before the Archbishop's elections on the island”.
