The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, was honored on Wednesday evening during an event at the Athens Concert Hall, where addresses given by Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The event was organized by the religious association Panaghia Pammakaristos.
Attendees included official title-holders bestowed by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Church of Greece hierarchs, office-holders and Mount Athos civil governor Athanasios Martinos.
On her part, Sakellaropoulou referred to the Ecumenical Patriarch “as a leader of global stature and a pillar of Hellenism, Orthodoxy and Christianity… He is one of those individuals who personify the spiritual and historical continuity of Hellenism’s universality.”
Mitsotakis called the Primate of the Mother Church a person of “international renown, beyond nationalities and religions … the Ecumenical Patriarch’s long path from his enthronement turned him into a pioneer of inter-faith dialogue throughout the world.”
