Église orthodoxe grecque Saint-Irénée de Marseille

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The Church of Saint-Irenaeus in Marseilles is an Orthodox church dependent on the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, founded in 1983 in Marseilles. It is notable for being one of the first orthodox churches in France where French becomes the main or exclusive liturgical language - then appearing as a pioneer in the history of the Orthodox Church in France. Following the installation in Marseilles of many Greeks during the contemporary era, the situation prompted the Orthodox of the city to found the church of the Dormition-de-la-Mère-de-Dieu of Marseille, one of the oldest Orthodox churches in France.

The arrival of successive waves of Orthodox diasporas and the growth of faithful speaking only French pushes the priest of this parish, the resistor and Just among the nations, Cyrille Argenti, to undertake a series of actions to receive permission to celebrate the Byzantine liturgy in French. The Metropolitan of France, Méletios, accepted this request - which was then relatively innovative - in 1964, and the community erected a church dedicated to Irénée de Lyon in the 1980s. One year after Argenti's death, the ecumenical patriarch...