{"id":3918,"date":"2026-05-04T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:30:00","slug":"nikitas-kaklamanis-welcomed-patriarch-bartholomew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3918","title":{"rendered":"Nikitas Kaklamanis welcomed Patriarch Bartholomew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With due honor and religious reverence, Nikitas Kaklamanis, <\/b>received today at Athens International Airport &#8220;Eleftherios Venizelos&#8221;the Ecumenical Patriarch, His Holiness <b>Barth\u00e9lemy<\/b>, who is making <b>an official visit<\/b> to Greece.<\/p>\n<p>After the arrival of His Holiness, the President of the Parliament expressed the deep <b>respect<\/b> of the State and the Greek <b>Parliament<\/b> for the person of the Primate of Orthodoxy, underlining the decisive role of the <b>Ecumenical Patriarchate<\/b> in the preservation of the spiritual unity and cultural heritage of Hellenism.<\/p>\n<h3>Historical speech on Tuesday at the Plenary Session of the Parliament<\/h3>\n<p>Twenty-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<b> tomorrow, Tuesday, May 5,<\/b> at 1:00 p.m, at a special session of the Plenary Session of the Parliament, at the invitation of the President of the Greek Parliament, Mr. <b>Nikitas Kaklamanis<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting of historic importance will take place in the presence of President of the Republic, Konstantinos Tasoulas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a difficult international context due to the crisis in the Middle East and the ongoing war in Ukraine, the Ecumenical Patriarch&#8217;s speech takes on even greater significance,&#8221; the Parliament&#8217;s Press Office notes.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker of the Parliament, immediately after his address, will award the Istanbul-based Prefect of the Eastern Orthodox Church the <b>Golden Medal of the Hellenic Parliament,<\/b> while after the special session of the Plenary Session of the Parliament <b>he will host an official lunch in his honour.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>His Holiness completes this year 35 years of Patriarchal service and 65 years of priestly mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With due honor and religious reverence, Nikitas Kaklamanis welcomed today at Athens International Airport &#8220;Eleftherios Venizelos&#8221; the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}