Archbishop Elpidophoros of America paid his first official visit to the new United States Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, on Wednesday afternoon.
Ambassador Guilfoyle received the Archbishop at Jefferson House, the residence that serves as the official home and reception venue of the American envoy to Athens. For 1 hour and 45 minutes, they spoke about the renewed hopes for the reopening of the Holy Theological School of Halki, the recent 1,700th-anniversary celebrations of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea, and the Ecumenical Patriarchate. They also focused on the important role the Orthodox Church plays in the lives of Greeks and the Greek-American diaspora and emphasized that the United States remains proudly committed to working with religious leaders to promote peace and religious freedom worldwide.
