Pilgrimage visit to the Mother Church, the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople, was made by the abbot of the Esphigmenou Monastery, Bartholomew, and fathers of the Monastery on Tuesday, March 22, 2022.
The fathers met with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who asked for the evacuation of the main building of the Esphigmenou Monastery from non- Athonite occupiers and the implementation of the decisions of the Greek courts as soon as possible.
He also announced his visit to Mount Athos at the end of May next year.
Finally, the Ecumenical Patriarch congratulated the abbot of the Holy Monastery, Archimandrite Bartholomew, for his intellectual work “enlightenment of public opinion”.