The 42nd Clergy–Laity Congress got its ecclesiastical start on Sunday with the hierarchal Divine Liturgy at St. George Cathedral. Hundreds of congress delegates and local parishioners were led in worship by Archbishop Demetrios, the members of the Holy Eparchial Synod, representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate–Metropolitans Athenagoras of Belgium and Metropolitan Stepha- nos of Kallioupolis and Madytos, chancellor of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.