His Eminence Metropolitan Photios of Demetrias travelled to America to take part in the deliberations of the Holy Synod. His Eminence served liturgy at the Monastery of St John of San Francisco, the Cathedral of St Markella in Astoria, New York, and the Cathedral of St Mark of Ephesus in Boston. Together with our Metropolitan, he travelled to Jordanville, in order to venerate the tomb of St Philaret of New York.