On the evening of Monday, June 16, 2025, at 7:00 p.m., Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew hosted an official dinner at the Patriarchal Residence in the Phanar to honor Archbishop Ioannis of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania, along with the delegation accompanying him.
The dinner warmly concluded a series of important official meetings that further deepened the historic and spiritual bonds between the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.