For the first time in a year, at the initiative of the Greek Ministry of Tourism, the “Joint Committee for the Promotion of Pilgrimage Tours” of the the Church of Greece has met.
On behalf of the Church of Greece, Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Dodoni participated as Head, Metropolitan Gerasimos of Petra as the Spokesman of the Eparchial Synod of the Church of Crete and Head of its Synodal Office of the Religious Tourism,and Metropoliran Cyril of Rhodes, as representative of the Metropolises of the Dodecanese.
From the side of the Ministry of Tourism, which hosted the meeting at the Offices of the General Secretariat for Tourism, Manos Konsolas, Deputy Minister of Tourism, and Angeliki Gerekou, Chairman of the Management Board of the Hellenic Tourism Organization participated.
The purpose of the meeting was first to inform the Bodies, the Church and the Ministry on the common issues related to each other’s actions to develop, present and promote Pilgrimage Tours inside and outside Greece, and secondly on the financing of the mature projects submitted by the Metropolises from NSRF resources.