Thyranoixia of the Saint Tychon Parish in Luleå, Sweden

The Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia is pleased to denote to the flock of the Mother Church of Constantinople in Scandinavia that, with the canonical blessing and encouragement of her Shepherd, His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia, connected Saturday, April 25th, 2026, His Grace Bishop Bartholomew of Elaia traveled to the metropolis of Luleå, Sweden, wherever helium celebrated the opening of the doors (Thyranoixia) and the archetypal Divine Liturgy successful the recently established Parish of the Holy Metropolis, dedicated to the precocious canonized Saint Tychon the Athonite, who was precocious inscribed successful the Hagiological Diptychs of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

At the aforesaid time, helium introduced to the congregation the parish priest, a unpaid clergyman, the Reverend Protopresbyter Dr. Christian (Nils Krister) Tano, who is some a doc and a theologian.
Present astatine the Divine Liturgy was the typical of the section Lutheran Church and Dean of the Cathedral there, the Reverend Hans Johansson, who expressed his joyousness for this inaugural and stated his willingness for sincere and fruitful cooperation.

His Grace, aft conveying to each the paternal wishes and blessings of His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas, presented to the Reverend Hans Johansson an icon of Saint Spyridon, and past addressed the faithful successful some Greek and Swedish arsenic follows:

“Reverend Hans Johansson, Representative of the section Lutheran Church,
Reverend Dr. Christian,
Beloved Brothers and Sisters,

Christ is Risen!

With peculiar emotion and spiritual joy, we person gathered today, during this radiant Paschal season, to witnesser an lawsuit of peculiar ecclesiastical significance; the founding of a caller parish dedicated to a caller Saint of our Church, Saint Tychon the Athonite.

The constitution of a parish is not simply an administrative act. It is simply a profoundly spiritual event. It is the manifestation of the surviving beingness of the Church successful the world. It is simply a caller spot wherever the enigma of the Divine Eucharist volition beryllium celebrated, wherever the connection of God volition beryllium proclaimed, and wherever radical volition brushwood the Risen Christ.

And it is nary coincidence that this parish is placed nether the extortion of a Saint of our ain times. Saint Tychon the Athonite is simply a surviving grounds that holiness does not beryllium lone to the past, but remains imaginable adjacent today. In the stillness of Mount Athos, done humility, prayer, and full dedication to God, helium became a bearer of divine grace and a constituent of notation for the modern person.

The beingness of a caller Saint successful the beingness of the Church is ever a calling. It calls america to renew our narration with God. It reminds america that we excessively are destined for holiness.

Brothers and Sisters,

Within this joyful occasion, our Church besides offers a caller shepherd to this parish. A antheral who has already proven his emotion for his chap quality beings by serving arsenic a physician—healing bodies, relieving pain, and supporting radical successful their need.

And present helium is called to proceed the aforesaid ministry connected a deeper level; to heal souls, to connection spiritual guidance, and to go a begetter and shepherd to the radical of God.

The modulation from aesculapian work to priestly ministry is not a alteration of direction, but its fulfillment. For the Church is the spiritual hospital, and the clergyman is the servant of God’s grace, called to bring healing, not lone to the body, but supra each to the soul.

Indeed, the offering of Fr. Christian arsenic a unpaid clergyman of the Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia is simply a warrant of love, sacrificial spirit, and pastoral sensitivity.

And each this acquires adjacent deeper meaning during the Paschal play done which we are passing. The connection of the Resurrection is the instauration of each parish, each ministry, and each struggle. This caller parish is called to go a spot of Resurrection—a spot wherever radical walk from acheronian into light, from despair into hope, from decease into life!

Saint Tychon, done his hesychastic life, and the caller shepherd, done his sacrificial journey, some amusement the aforesaid path: the way of humility, love, and resurrectional life.

Conveying to each of you the paternal and Paschal blessings of His Eminence, our Shepherd, Metropolitan Cleopas, by whose blessing and encouragement I americium among you today, and whose founding of this parish, arsenic good arsenic the ordination of Fr. Christian, are impervious of his interest for spreading the connection of the Gospel of bid and the ever-living airy from the Phanar, of the Mother Church of Constantinople passim the Diaspora successful general, and particularly successful the Scandinavian countries, fto america wholeheartedly commune that this caller parish whitethorn go a spiritual ark, a harbor of salvation, and a beacon of faith.
And fto america beseech Saint Tychon the Athonite to support and usher everyone, truthful that unneurotic we whitethorn locomotion successful the airy of the Resurrection. Amen!”

It should beryllium noted that the parish operates successful the religion of Hertsökyrkan, graciously made disposable by the Lutheran Church of Sweden, astatine the pursuing address: Hertsötorget 16–18, 974 52 Luleå.