PM: Greece and Egypt have safeguarded spiritual character of Sinai Monastery

[Prime Minister’s Office via InTime News]

Greece and Egypt person worked to sphere successful perpetuity the spiritual and spiritual quality of Saint Catherine’s Monastery astatine Mount Sinai, arsenic well arsenic its rights and the extortion of the monks who service there, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said. 

Speaking astatine the enthronement ceremonial of the caller abbot and archbishop of Sinai, Symeon, Mitsotakis said his beingness signified that “Greece will proceed to stand by you astatine each step and support you astatine each level.”

He praised the monks for showing “patience, spiritual wisdom, and unwavering faith” during the caller contention implicit the monastery’s ineligible status, saying they had “emerged unscathed from the ordeal, renewing the spirit of unity.”

The ceremonial was besides attended by Jerusalem Patriarch Theophilos III arsenic well arsenic representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Patriarchate of Alexandria and the Churches of Greece and Cyprus.

Following the enthronement, Mitsotakis met with Patriarch Theophilos, Archbishop Symeon and US Deputy Secretary of State Michael Rigas.

On Saturday, helium will be the inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum, earlier traveling to Cyprus connected Sunday for a memorial work for erstwhile president Glafkos Clerides.