The Greek Parliament will be addressed by Bartholomew tomorrow, Tuesday.
Seventy-seven years after his first speech in 1999 at the Plenary of the Parliament, Archbishop Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, will address the Parliament tomorrow, Tuesday, May 5, at 1:00 p.m, at a special session of the Plenary Session of the Parliament, at the invitation of the President of the Hellenic Parliament, Mr. Nikitas Kaklamanis.
The historic session will take place in the presence of the President of the Hellenic Republic, Mr. Konstantinos Tasoulas.
“In a difficult international context due to the crisis in the Middle East and the ongoing war in Ukraine, the Ecumenical Patriarch’s speech takes on even greater significance,” the Parliament’s Press Office notes.
The Speaker of the Parliament, immediately after his address, will award the Istanbul-based Prefect of the Eastern Orthodox Church the Golden Medal of the Hellenic Parliament, while after the end of the special session of the Plenary Session of the Parliament he will host an official lunch in his honor.
His Holiness completes this year 35 years of Patriarchal service and 65 years of priestly mission.
On Thursday, 7 May, at 17.30, the Speaker of the Parliament, Mr Nikitas Kaklamanis, will address the event entitled “Timelessness and Ecumenism: The Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Modern World”, which will be held in honour of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Pallas Theatre, co-organised by the volunteer group “Roma Acts”.
