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With apologies for cross-posting: Vespers According to the Rite of the Great Church of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople for the Vigil of the Feast of the Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Council at Nicaea The Rt. Rev. Dr. Kallistos Ware, Chief Celebrant The Greek Byzantine Choir (Athens) Lycourgos Angelopoulos, director St. Peteršs College Chapel Saturday 26 May 2001 at 6 PM This service, which is free and open to the public, will be the first celebration in over 500 years of an ancient form of worship originating in the urban basilicas of Late Antiquity. The reconstruction, made from medieval sources by Dr. Alexander Lingas (St. Peteršs) and Mr. Ioannis Arvanitis (Ionian University, Corfu) with the assistance of Archimandrite Ephrem (Lash), will follow the order of the 10th-century Typikon of the Great Church. Information: (01865) 278917 or [log in to unmask] Graciously made possible by a grant from the A.G. Leventis Foundation ------------- On Sunday, 27 May the Greek Byzantine Choir will sing matins (9.15 AM) and Divine Liturgy (10.30 AM) according to the received Byzantine rite at Oxford's Orthodox Church, 1 Canterbury Road (just off the Banbury Road).