The Proceedings of the Scholarly Conferences of the Church for 1821 officially delivered to HE the President of the Hellenic Republic

In the morning of November 19, 2021, HB Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and all Greece delivered the ten volumes of the respective ten scholarly Conferences of the Church, held annually from 2012 to this year on the occasion of the bicentenary of the beginning of the Greek Revolution of 1821.

The Archbishop was accompanied by the President of the Special Synodic Committee on Cultural Identity, Metropolitan Ignatios of Demetrias and Almyros, the former Secretary of the Committee, Metropolitan Vartholomaios of Kilkission, the Chief Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, Bishop Philotheos of Oreoi, the Secretary of the Committee, Archimandrite Damaskinos Petrakos, the President of the Special Synodic Committee on the Academy of Ecclesiastical Arts, Protopresbyter Thomas Synodinos, and the Secretary of the Committee, Archimandrite Athenagoras Soupourtzis, while associates of HE the President of the Hellenic Republic attended the ceremony.

You may read the entire speech of the Archbishop here.

HE the President of the Hellenic Republic counter-addressed the delegation, thanking them for the gesture.