Gerapetritis: The Hellenic State will always support the mission of the Ecumenical Patriarchate

Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis, presently successful Istanbul, was received by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew astatine the renovated Patriarchal Marasli Urban School.

During his visit, Mr. Gerapetritis volition besides conscionable with representatives of the Greek Diaspora. After his gathering with the Ecumenical Patriarch, the Foreign Minister made the pursuing statement:

“Today I had the large grant of being received by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew astatine the spot of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and successful peculiar astatine the precocious renovated Patriarchal Marasli Urban School, which stands arsenic a existent awesome of Orthodoxy successful Istanbul. Our privation is that 1 time it volition reopen arsenic an acquisition and pedagogical halfway of the Greek Orthodox assemblage successful the city, with teachers and students.

I had a agelong and highly fruitful backstage treatment with the Patriarch. We had the accidental to speech astir issues concerning the Diaspora, the Greek Community of Istanbul, the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and besides matters regarding the Theological School of Halki. Our anticipation is that it volition 1 time reopen. This would beryllium a almighty awesome of universality, tolerance, and culture.

The Hellenic State volition ever basal successful enactment of the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s ngo of solidarity, which upholds not lone Orthodoxy but besides the large philosophical principles of emotion and solidarity—principles that, successful specified a troubled clip for the world, indispensable usher some quality and interstate relations.”