The courtesy visit took place at the GOARCH headquarters in New York as part of the Greek minister’s tour in the U.S., where he met with several high-profile officials.

Earlier on Thursday, Patriarch Bartholomew had celebrated a doxology at the Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine in Manhattan.

After the Summer University concluded, the University of Ioannina signed a cooperation agreement with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America to open an International Office in New York.

Archbishop Elpidophoros, the head of the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, was appointed to the Advisory Board of Religious Leaders for President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, according to the Archdiocese. The executive order establishing the commission reads: It shall be the policy of the executive branch to vigorously enforce the historic and […]

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The issue of same-sex marriage has taken center stage in public debate in Greece this month, amid a related draft bill tabled by the government in Parliament