LAST UPDATE: 13.04
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is in Athens today, on a three-day visit.
The Ecumenical Patriarch landed at noon in Athens, where He was welcomed by Metropolitan Theodoret of Laodicea, Metropolitan Kirill of Ierapytna, and Bishop Filotheos of Oreoi.
As part of his visit, on Sunday he will officiate for the first time at the Church of St. Nicholas in the Workhouse, which was granted to the Ecumenical Patriarchate by the “Merciful Society of Athens – Nursing Home – Workhouse”, with the decisive contribution of Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece and the Mayor of Athens Konstantinos Bakoyannis.
Today, in the afternoon, the Ecumenical Patriarch will visit Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, while tomorrow, Saturday, at noon, he will be honored by the Municipality of Athens with the distinction “Euclid Athenian”, awarded for the first time, in a special ceremony to be held at the Olympia Municipal Music Theatre “Maria Callas”.
The Ecumenical Patriarch will return to Constantinople early on Sunday afternoon.
It is recalled that according to a previous report by orthodoxtimes.com, the Ecumenical Patriarch during his visit to Athens will perform the wedding of the youngest son of the Theodoros and Gianna Angelopoulos family, Dimitrios, on Saturday, May 20.
The Angelopoulos family are well-known benefactors of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, maintaining many years of friendly relations with the Ecumenical Patriarch, while Theodoros Angelopoulos has been proclaimed Grand Archon Logothetis of the Patriarchate.
The patriarchal entourage consists of Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, Metropolitan Theodoretos of Laodicea, Director of the Representation Office of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Athens, and Metropolitan Kyrillos of Ierapytna and Sitia, Grand Ecclesiarch Aetios, Director of the Private Patriarchal Office, and Tritevon Kallinikos, Nikolaos-Georgios Papachristou, Director of the Press and Communication Office of the Ecumenical Patriarch, and Themistocles Karanikolas, Patriarchal Officer.
In the absence of the Patriarch, Geron Metropolitan Apostolos of Derkoi was appointed locum tenens.
