Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople celebrates an Orthodox liturgy at the Panagia Soumela Monastery near Trabzon, Turkey

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople celebrated an Orthodox liturgy for the feast of the Dormition of Mary at the Panagia Soumela Monastery near Trabzon, August 15, 2010. Thousands of Orthodox pilgrims from Greece, Russia and Georgia attended the liturgy at the monastery for the first time since 1923.