Mitsotakis Pledges Support to Sinai Monastery During Enthronement

The caller Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine astatine Mount Sinai, Simeon guides PM Mitsotakis successful the monastery. Credit: Press Office of the Greek PM

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis attended the enthronement ceremonial for the caller Archbishop of Sinai and Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine astatine Mount Sinai, Simeon.

The ceremonial was a large pan-Orthodox event, attended by Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem and representatives from the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Patriarchate of Alexandria, and the Churches of Greece and Cyprus.

Mitsotakis utilized his code to affirm Greece’s enduring committedness to the historical monastery, emphasizing its nationalist and spiritual importance.

The Greek PM hailed the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine arsenic a beacon of religion and history, calling it: “A ‘bulwark’ of Orthodoxy, a ‘lighthouse’ of spiritual virtue, a humanities awesome of our identity, a surviving grounds of the Greek and Christian spirit, and, astatine the aforesaid time, a span of relationship betwixt Greece and Egypt.”

Mitsotakis greets clerics astatine the Sinai Monastery. Credit: Press Office of the Greek PM

He explicitly pledged Greece’s continued beingness and assistance, describing the enactment arsenic a nationalist duty:

“It is simply a nationalist duty, therefore, our enduring involvement successful the multifaceted spiritual and taste ngo of the Monastery and our tenable work to supply each assistance to those who uphold our traditions successful this distant portion of the peninsula.”

“I americium present contiguous to corroborate that Greece volition proceed to beryllium contiguous successful each measurement that lies up and volition beryllium your protagonist astatine each level.”

Mitsotakis connected preserving the Sinai Monastery’s status

Mitsotakis acknowledged caller turbulence wrong the Church but commended the Sinai Brotherhood for their perseverance, promising that the Greek and Egyptian states are moving together to unafraid the Monastery’s future:

“The efforts of the Greek and Egyptian states person already opened the mode truthful that the worshipful quality of the Monastery volition beryllium maintained successful perpetuity, arsenic volition its rights and the extortion of the monks who service it.”

US Deputy Secretary of State Michael Rigas met Kyriakos Mitsotakis astatine the monastery. Credit: Press Office of the Greek PM

Following the enthronement, a circuit of the Monastery, and backstage meetings with Patriarch Theophilos and US Deputy Secretary of State Michael Rigas took place.

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