Tenafly’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral Consecrated By Head of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey

Tenafly Greek Orthodox Church

Metropolitan Evangelos, head of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey, performed the elaborate, historical ceremony at the chapel, which is in a wing of the Cathedral of St. John the Theologian in Tenafly. The consecration was the final touch, a spiritual one, to mark completion of a $500,000 renovation of the chapel, its lobby and church administrative offices.

The chapel’s ceremony marked the first time in decades that there has been a Greek Orthodox consecration in Bergen County, according to St. John officials, and the metropolitan said he has only performed three during his decade-long tenure.

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