The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew attended a luncheon hosted by the Australian Ambassador in Athens, Alison Duncan, with Archbishop Makarios and Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens.
The meeting, which took place at the Ambassador’s residence, was also attended by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexandra Papadopoulou, the Minister of Religious Affairs George Kalantzis, the Metropolitan of Chalkidonos, Emmanuel, and members of the Australian Embassy.
The Ecumenical Patriarch has been on an official visit to Athens since Wednesday, when he attended the conferral of an honorary doctorate on Archbishop Makarios of Australia by the Department of Theology and the Department of Social Theology and Religious Studies of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Athens.
Next Sunday, Patriarch Bartholomew will preside at the Divine Liturgy to be celebrated at the Church of St. Nicholas of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, in Kolonaki, with the co-consecrator, Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Merciful Society of Athens’s construction of the church.
Translated by Ioanna Georgakopoulou
