{"id":4113,"date":"2026-05-05T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4113"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:41:00","slug":"meeting-between-vassilis-kikilias-and-ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-what-they-discussed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=4113","title":{"rendered":"Meeting between Vassilis Kikilias and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew &#8211; What they discussed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <strong>Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew<\/strong> <b>met<\/b> <b>Minister Maritime and Island Policy<\/b> <strong>Vassilis Kikilias<\/strong>, at the Office of the representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. <\/p>\n<p>In an online post, the Shipping Minister referred to a <b>meeting of &#8220;special honour&#8221;<\/b>, underlining the Patriarch&#8217;s enduring contribution to Ecumenical Hellenism and Orthodoxy, as well as his firm stand for the values of faith, tradition and unity.<\/p>\n<p>As he pointed out, the interventions and speech of the <b>Oecumenical Patriarch<\/b> take on special significance in a period of increased international challenges. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><b>Mr. Kikilias also highlighted Greece&#8217;s role as a custodian of historical and spiritual values<\/b>, noting that the country has been defending the principles that constitute our national identity throughout time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vassilis Kikilias, Minister of Shipping and Island Policy, met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at his office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4113","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\/4113","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=4113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}