Ambassador Duncan hosts luncheon for Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop Makarios

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His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew attended a luncheon on Friday, May 9, hosted by Australian Ambassador to Greece, Alison Duncan at her residence in Athens.

The Ecumenical Patriarch was joined by Their Eminences Archbishop Makarios of Australia and Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece.

Also in attendance were Greece’s Minister of Religious Affairs George Kalantzis, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alexandra Papadopoulou, Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalkidonos, and members of the Australian Embassy.

Photo: Christos Bonis / Archdiocese of Athens.

The Ecumenical Patriarch has been in Athens since Wednesday, May 7 for an official visit, during which he attended the conferral of an honorary doctorate on Archbishop Makarios by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens’ Faculty of Theology.

On Sunday, the Patriarch presided over the Divine Liturgy at the Church of St Nicholas of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Kolonaki, with Archbishop Ieronymos co-celebrating. The service marked the 150th anniversary of the Merciful Society of Athens’ construction of the church.

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