The liturgy of Panychida was successfully serviced, on Friday April 22, in the Church of Saint Dimitrios, in the Nea Dimitriada of Volos. The event was organized by the Holy Metropolis of Dimitrias and Almyros and the Department of Psaltic Art and Musicology of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies in collaboration with the Chanters' Association of Volos ''Agios Ioannis o Koukouzelis''.

The liturgy was serviced by His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatius of Demetrias and Almyros and there were psalms by the Chanters' Choir of the Volos Chanters' Association, and as a Head Choir was the head chanter of the Christ's Ascention Church  in Volos Dimitris Katsiklis, Philologist and byzantine  music professor. Also, there was a brief introductory speech by the president of the Volos Chanter's Association, Stathis Grammenos, Theologian and assistant choir of the Metropolitan Church of Saint Nikolaos.

Panychida is one of the services of the byzantine chanting (lay) ritual, which was left out of  the orthodox act of worship after the Fall of Constantinople, in 1453. In 2000 the Emeritus Professor of Byzantine Musicology of the Music Department of the National University of Athens Gregorios Stathis restored its initial use as a form of worship, did the composing of the hymnographical texts and its printed edition having the assent and approval of the blessed Archbishop Christodoulos. Panychida was serviced in Volos for the first time.

His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatius of Demetrias, during his brief speech at the end of the event, pointed out that we need to bring back these forms of worship, in which there was a wide congregation's attendance, while he stressed the close relation between the worship of the Jewish religion and the one of the early Christian times, noting that it was really important for the research of the biblical texts to translate them in Greek from the Septuagint, e.g in the 2nd century.