Today, at the inauguration ceremony of the Center for Gerontology and Welfare Support “Agios Porphyrios”, inaugurated by the Ecumenical Patriarch and in the presence of Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, the President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, referred to the crucial role of the Orthodox Church of Greece in covering many and important gaps in the welfare state during the current economic crisis.
In his address, President Pavlopoulos said that “at a crucial moment for the unity of our people and our nation before the challenges they face, the Shepherd of Orthodoxy on Earth, His All-Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, and the Primate of the Church of Greece, Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, meet here, in a highly symbolic and accordingly emblematic initiative of blissful unity.”
He further added that the Orthodox Church of Greece covers many and important gaps in the proper functioning of the welfare state in which the State alone would not be able to cope.
