Greetings from His Beatitude Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece

The ‹Fanari› begins its vision of spreading the music of our Church to the ends of the earth with the best omens, since this vision is shared, as can be seen in the relevant interviews and greetings letters, by a number of great Church and Chanting Art personalities, which the ‹Fanari› thanks warmly for their trust.

Prominent among the greetings is the willing blessing of the head of the apostolic Church of Greece, His Beatitude Hieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, in which the musically trained hierarch refers in a moving way both to the connection of the Chanting Art with the spiritual life and to the chanting tradition of Constantinople, which has always been the treasury of the notorious yphos (“style”), without which the Byzantine Music Notation signs are nothing more than dry bones.