Archbishop Iakovos: In His Own Words
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Below is a collection of various speeches and remarks given by Archbishop Iakovos over the years. We will continue to develop this site over the coming weeks.
FAREWELL REMARKS OF ARCHBISHOP IAKOVOS UPON HIS RETIREMENT IN 1996
Grand Banquet, Clergy-Laity Congress, July 3, 1996
The beautiful Day which lasted almost 37 years has reached its end.
The sunset is brilliant, as I can read it in your eyes. The night will
be short, as are the nights of the summer. And the dawn will rise tomorrow
upon another Day. It is for this day that I pray together with you. I
want you to be happy, to enjoy the light, to walk in it. I will be terribly
unhappy if you ever lose the sight of tomorrow. Read
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September 1996
This very moment, you are all in front of my eyes. Not only those of you
whom I visited, met and ministered in our parishes during the past 37
years of my archpastoral ministry, but all those, as well, whom I met
as a deacon and a priest, when I first arrived in America in 1939.
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