The priest was shot twice in the stomach by an unknown assailant while locking up at the Greek Orthodox Church of Annunciation and was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
The motive for the shooting remains unclear, and the police continue to work the attempted murder investigation.
Yesterday, Corfu Prosecutor of First Instance D. Lampridis filed an appeal against His Eminence’s acquittal in the charge stemming from Palm Sunday celebrations, when five people were involved in a procession with the relics of St. Spyridon inside the church where the Metropolitan was serving.
In its session yesterday, the Polish Constitutional Court passed a ruling that will ban practically all abortions in the country.
On October 20, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, the primate of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, addressed the faithful regarding the recently increasing spread of the coronavirus, calling on them to observe all health and sanitary recommendations while maintaining a spiritual view of everything that is happening.