The President of the Council of European Churches (CEC), Christian Krieger, was received at the offices of the Metropolis in Brussels by Metropolitan Athenagoras of Belgium and Exarch of the Netherlands and Luxembourg on the morning of October 15, 2021.
The meeting was held in a very warm atmosphere. Metropolitan Athenagoras was briefed on current issues and activities of the CEC, and there was a discussion on issues of common interest as well as prospects for joint actions. President Krieger referred mainly to the General Assembly of the CEC which will take place in 2023 in Estonia, but also to the creation of a new Ecumenical Platform for Dialogue of the European Churches, which will be ready by 2026.