Yes. But Met. +PHILIP (memory eternal!) was a modernizer — clergy suits instead of cassocks (blessedly I’m in the Diocese of Wichita, where, except when Met. +PHILIP was actually physically present, clergy still wore and wear cassocks), cutting the ektenia before the Our Father out of the Liturgy, and the like. I stand by my assertion that there is general opposition to any attempt to revive the order of deaconess.
Interesting on the “modernizing”...similar pattern in the Diocese of Charleston regarding both cassocks and the ektenia before the Lord’s Prayer.
As best as I can recall that ektenia was used during a Hierachical Divine Liturgy I witnessed last June.