NEW YORK – Invited by the Republican National Convention Committee, Archbishop Demetrios, head of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, will deliver the prayer of Invocation at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, September 4, 2008 at approximately 6:30 pm (CDT). The Archbishop’s invocation will be offered on the last day of the four-day Convention which takes place in Minneapolis – St. Paul, Minn. on September 1 – 4, 2008.

Archbishop Demetrios also offered a Prayer of Invocation at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colo. on Wednesday, August 27, 2008.

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