St John The Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, London Uk

The Greek Orthodox Community of St. John the Baptist was originally housed in St Clements Anglican Church in Caledonian Road, Barnsbury, London N7. The Holy Church has received the jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain following the consent of the Anglican Church. In 1967, he came from Cyprus to London, the Monk Heracles Aristotelous, where he was promoted to the rank of Archimandrite by Archbishop Athenagoras, and was renamed Leontios. That year, Archimandrite Nikiforos was transferred to All Saints and the position of Parish Priest of the Church became Archimandrite Leontios Aristotelous. Because of town movement of emigrants, the Holy Church started losing part of the congregation, and in addition, problems in the building of the Church, the then leaders of the community started searching for a new church building. Finally, they found a derelict Anglican Church in North London, in Wightman Rd, which was dedicated to the Apostle Peter. Due to many structural and mechanical problems there was an immediate need for financial resources for their rehabilitation. Generous expatriates, including N. Hadjipateras, C. Hadjipateras, H. Karamanlis, K. Mouskas, S. Polemis, M. Hatziioannou, offered large sums of money to cover the needs of the Church, and others with their own work, offered equally to this work, that reached the Opening of the new Church on October 5, 1980 by the then Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain the blessed Methodios Fouyias. At that time, Sophocles Papanicolaou undertook entirely the sponsorship and financial assistance to the Church in every possible level. On June 23, 1985 there was conducted the official opening of the Holy Church by the then Archbishop Methodios. At the Grand Opening Ceremony there were decorated more than 20 protagonists of the church with the title of the Key Openers.
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