Metropolitan Herman attends funeral of President Gerald Ford

SYOSSET, NY [OCA Communications] — His Beatitude, Metropolitan Herman, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, will be among the many civic and religious leaders attending the funeral of US President Gerald Ford at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday, January 2, 2007.

Metropolitan Heman will process into the cathedral with the leaders of various faith traditions and will be seated in the sanctuary for the funeral service.

President Ford’s body will be received with ceremony at the cathedral at 10:00 a.m., after which the funeral service will commence.

President George Bush will eulogize President Ford during the funeral.

Also attending the funeral will be His Eminence, Archbishop Demetrios of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, chairman of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas.