Australian Ambassador visits Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople

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The Australian Ambassador to Ankara, Her Excellency Sally Anne Vincent, visited the headquarters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate at the Phanar on Friday, October 17.

Accompanied by her husband, David Jones, and Australia’s Consul General in Constantinople, Tony Huber, Ambassador Vincent was received by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.

The meeting included an extensive discussion on the Patriarchate’s activities and its broad Eparchy in Australia.

In attendance at the meeting were His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, currently in Constantinople for the Holy and Sacred Synod, and the Grand Ecclesiarch Aetios, director of the private patriarchal office.

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