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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 19, 2005
Contact: Nikki Stephanopoulos

FIRST LITURGY FOLLOWING HURRICANE CELEBRATED
IN HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL IN NEW ORLEANS

New York, NY - His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America, spiritual
leader of 1.5 million Greek Orthodox faithful, joyfully announced today
that the first post-hurricane Divine Liturgy was celebrated yesterday,
September 18th, at the historic Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral in
New Orleans by Fr. Milton Gianulis, a Greek-Orthodox U.S. Navy Chaplain.
The Cathedral parish is the oldest Greek Orthodox community in the United
States established in 1864 and the relatively new church edifice,
consecrated by Archbishop Demetrios in 2001, was flooded and has suffered
water damage from Hurricane Katrina.

Fr. Milton Gianulis is attached to the USS IWO JIMA, a multi-purpose
amphibious ship, headed by Greek Orthodox Captain Richard Callas. With the
help of Captain Callas and under the direction of  Fr. Milton, several
members of the IWO JIMA crew salvaged books, furniture and other moveable
items from the church and cleaned and dried the interior and exterior of
the church, making the Liturgy possible.

On Sunday morning eight parishioners attended the Divine Liturgy including
IWO JIMA crewmembers and two officers of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Nick
Moustoukis, Vice President and Chris Kanellakis, Treasurer.

According to information received from those present, the level of the
water inside the church had reached three feet from which there was
considerable damage. What is not known at this time is how much structural
damage there was to the church, which will be determined by inspection of
engineers in the coming weeks.

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