Tag: death of a deacon

On Christmas Day at 12:15 p.m. Protodeacon Christopher Li Greci fell asleep in the Lord strengthened by the Holy Mysteries and following a long illness. As Fr. Economos Romanus Russo, a priest of the Melkite Eparchy wrote, “It was only fitting that, as the world celebrated the birth of the Christ, he who bore Christ (Christo-phoros) …