International conference on 30 years of ministry of the Ecumenical Patriarch-Greetings St.. Καλαφάτη, Ap. Tzitzikosta, K. Zerva and Archbishop Jerome
The Deputy Minister of Interior expressed the support of the government to the Ecumenical Patriarch, responsible for Macedonian affairs, Thrace Stavros Kalafatis during the greeting he addressed at the international conference on 30 years of ministry of Mr.. Bartholomew, in the Ceremony Hall of AUTh.
"Every reason is too little to express feelings of joy, of honor and gratitude ”, pointed out Mr.. Kalafatis and added that Saint Paisios had characterized the Ecumenical Patriarch as the best God gave to Orthodoxy.
His presence at the enthronement of Mr.. Bartholomew, the 1991, recalled the governor of Central Macedonia, Apostolos Tzitzikostas for whom he said that he gave meaning to the word ecumenism with his personality.
He added that Mr.. Bartholomew is a stable and timeless voice of reason and gives a huge fight to defend the rights of the Patriarchate and the values it stands for.
For his part, the mayor of Thessaloniki, Konstantinos Zervas, praised the diverse work of Mr.. Bartholomew, Emphasizing that it has made a decisive contribution "to the promotion of inter-Christian and interfaith dialogue in a spirit of sharing, Solidarity and Peace ".
He expressed, not, his gratitude to the face of the Ecumenical Patriarch for the historic, as he characterized it, decision to resolve the ecclesiastical issue of the Church of Skopje with its recognition as the "Archdiocese of Ohrid".
The Rector of AUTh Nikolaos Papaioannou referred to the offer of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew which is, as he characteristically said “multifaceted, with universal dimension and international recognition, at the church, theology, society, man and is a source of inspiration for the family of Aristotle University”.
The congratulatory wishes of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece to the participants of the conference were conveyed by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, Jerome.
He stressed that the Ecumenical Patriarch is a "preacher and apostle" of the secret joy and hope that the Risen Lord "will remove every tear from our eyes" and wished Jesus to give him "in many years, olvia and christo data, εις το πατριαχεύειν πανευκλέως εν αληθεία, usefulness and justice ”.
In respect, the love and gratitude of the clergy, of the people and the institutional agents of Thessaloniki to the Ecumenical Patriarch referred to the Metropolitan of Thessaloniki, Anthimos, in his greeting read by the first synagogue of the diocese.
They also addressed a greeting, the dean of the Theological School, Chrysostomos Stamoulis, the bishop of Amori, President of the Patriarchal Foundation for Patriarchal Studies, Victorious, the president of the Society for Macedonian Studies, Vassilios Pappas and the vice-president of the Philoptochos Brotherhood of Men of Thessaloniki, Christos Papanikolaou.
The conference was opened by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who earlier ordained the dean of the Theological School, Chrysostomos Stamouli. Lord Teacher of the Church.