As we continue to pray for healing and restoration from Hurricane Helene, we are now preparing to endure the threatening Hurricane Milton.
 
I pray our world joins together in trusting that God will preserve His creation, no matter the extent of the damages we will suffer. I am thankful for the tremendous and generous support from our leaders, emergency responders, and neighbors who are offering so much in response to Hurricane Helene. Let us not abandon the many others who are in need now, or will be, from Hurricane Milton. 
 
May God bless all those who will put themselves in the path of the impending harm and who seek to protect, preserve, and enable our world to recover in the days and weeks ahead. We console those who have already lost loved ones, and who fear the worst in the days ahead.  We look to Εμμανουήλ - Emmanuel - God is with us!
 
The verses and prayer below are reprinted from the evening or vespers service for Pentecost, when our Lord filled His Disciples with the Holy Spirit. “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” (Rom. 15:13)
 
From Vespers of Pentecost:
 
“You have revealed Your power among the people. I remembered the deeds of the Lord, for I will recall Your wonders of old.”
 
“What god is great as our God? You are God, Who alone works wonders.”
 
“Blessed are You, Master, Almighty Lord, for You light the day with the light of the sun and brighten the night with the rays of fire. You enabled us to pass the span of the day and so come to the beginnings of the night. Hear our prayer and that of all Your people, and forgive us all our deliberate and unwitting sins; receive our evening petitions and send upon Your inheritance the abundance of Your mercy and compassion.
 
Encompass us with Your holy Angels; arm us with the weapons of Your righteousness; fortify us within Your truth; make Your strength our garrison, spare us all adverse circumstances and all assaults of the adversary. Finally, vouchsafe to us this evening, and the impending night, perfect, holy, peaceful, sinless, free of disturbing visions, and all the days of our lives, through the prayers of the Holy Theotokos and of all the Saints who have pleased You through the ages. Amen.”

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Every year, following the ratification of our Parish Council Elections in November and December, each Clergyman is asked to offer the Oath of Office and conduct Officer Elections. After  you have completed the oath and officer electlions, please click the link below to update the names of your Parish Ministry Leadership, including new Parish Council officers.

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On behalf of His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios, I am reminding our Metropollis of Atlanta Clergy that most Fridays of the year are fast days and as such, His Eminence asks that we not schedule weddings on these days. If a critical and extenuating circumstance exists, as the local Priest, please inform the Chancellor in writing and he will review with the Metropolitan and advise you of a final decision. Thank you for your help for us to be consistent with all our couples getting married.

Dear Brother Clergy,

Worthy is the new shepherd of the Holy Metropolis of Atlanta, His Eminence Sevastianos! Axios!

We all express our gratitude and thanks to our Mother Church of Constantinople and personally to its illustrious 34-year Primate, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and the Holy and Sacred Synod for their attentive ear to the unanimous plea and proposal of the Archbishop, the members of our Holy Eparchial Synod, the clergy and the laity, as well as of His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios himself, for the election of His Eminence Metropolitan Sevastianos, succeeding his venerable and respected predecessor.

Following His election as our new Metropolitan, His Eminence Metropolitan Sevastianos shared: “I am deeply grateful to the Mother Church and especially to His All Holiness our Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew for the honor and trust shown in electing me through the Holy and Sacred Synod of our Patriarchate as the successor of the Metropolitan Alexios who surrounded me with great love and trust, and I worked closely with him. He proposed me to the Patriarchate as his successor.”

Metropolitan Sebastian added, “I am also grateful to His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros and the Holy and Sacred Eparchial Synod of our Archdiocese for their vote. I pray that Almighty God will give me strength and enlighten my steps to continue this God-pleasing work, which I have served here in the Metropolis of Atlanta as Assistant Bishop and now as Metropolitan.”

Announcement from His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America: 

Dear and much beloved Clergy of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Atlanta:
 
It is with sentiments of delight that I write to inform you of Bishop Sevastianos of Zela’s unanimous election as Metropolitan of the Holy Metropolis of Atlanta by the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Holy and Sacred Synod today, Monday, December 2.
 
Since 2019, His Eminence has been serving the Holy Metropolis of Atlanta with great poise and dignity, supporting the wonderful ministries under the leadership of His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios. The love from within the community is felt throughout the Metropolis and the Archdiocese. I join these voices of our clergy and laity to loudly exclaim AXIOS for this most worthy and faithful hierarch of our Church!
 
I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude and fraternal appreciation to His Eminence Metropolitan Savvas of Pittsburgh for accepting to extend his loving archpastoral oversight of the Metropolis during his service as Locum Tenens until the enthronement. However, kindly know that as of today, Metropolitan Sevastianos is to be commemorated in all the divine services celebrated in the Holy Metropolis of Atlanta as its canonical shepherd.
 
Please be aware that the Enthronement of His Eminence Metropolitan Sevastianos will take place on Saturday, January 25, 2025, at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Atlanta at 10:00 a.m. The following day, Sunday, January 26, he will celebrate his first Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral as Metropolitan of Atlanta.
 
Bestowing upon all of you my Archepiscopal blessings, I beseech our Heavenly Master to protect you forevermore, keeping you under the wise spiritual care, guidance and leadership of your new shepherd, His Eminence Metropolitan Sevastianos of Atlanta.
 
With paternal blessings and love in the Lord, 

† ELPIDOPHOROS Archbishop of America 

Dear Clergy & Parish Boards of Elections,

For Parish Council Elections to fill members of your Parish Councils who rotate off this year, I ask you to use the following forms to submit your Parish Council Election results for ratification for those to be elected to serve in 2025.

Every Tuesday at 2:00 p.m., this page is updated to remind clergy of pending requests from Metropolitan Alexios and our Metropolis Office. Sometimes, clergy may miss emails, so check this page once per week after Tuesday at 2:00 p.m. to ensure you have not missed an email or important notice asking for your help.