The Bulgarian Patriarchate’s Bishop of Belogradchik, His Grace Polycarp, this week received in Sofia the visiting Greek Deputy Minister of foreign affairs, Costas Vlasis, who holds the expatriate Greeks’ portfolio.
His Grace is an auxiliary Bishop to the Patriarch of Bulgaria, His Holiness Neofyt.
Discussions revolved around issues affecting the Orthodox Church and relations between Greece and Bulgaria, neighbors and overwhelmingly Orthodox Christian nations.
The Greek minister is in Bulgaria to attend an event hosted by the Greek-Bulgarian Cultural Association “Aristotle”.
In addition, Vlasis visited the faculty of Greek Language in Sofia, and held meetings with representatives of expatriate groups and business associations.
Vlasis also traveled to the Black Sea town of Sozopol, ancient Apollo-NI-a, or Sozopoli, which hosts an ethnic Greek community of some 4,000 people, who have roots at the site dating back to the fourth century BC.
