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On Tuesday, December 2, 2025, at 11:30 a.m., His Eminence will meet in Athens with His Excellency Konstantinos Tasoulas, President of the Hellenic Republic. At 1:00 p.m., he will visit His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, at the Archdiocese of Athens. At 4:00 p.m., the Archbishop will meet with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the Maximos Mansion, the official seat of the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic.
On Wednesday, December 3, 2025, at 10:30 a.m., Archbishop Elpidophoros will pay an official visit to the Ambassador of the United States of America to the Hellenic Republic, Kimberly Guilfoyle, at the U.S. Embassy in Athens.
On Thursday, December 4, 2025, at 12:00 p.m., His Eminence will visit His Eminence Metropolitan Gabriel of Neas Ionias and Philadelphias, including a visit to a new construction site in the Metropolis. In the evening, at 6:00 p.m., he will lead a public symposium in the Great Hall of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (central building, Panepistimiou 30), on the theme “Can the ‘in Christ’ life of the Church enter into dialogue with life in the public sphere of the State?”
The symposium will focus on the social document of the Ecumenical Patriarchate For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church (FLOW), a text prepared by a special commission of Orthodox theologians at the request of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and formally endorsed by the Holy Synod. The document has been recently translated and published in Greek by Akritas Books, together with introductory commentaries and theological reflections by Greek scholars.
Joining the Archbishop will be Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, Archdeacon of the Ecumenical Throne, professor of theology, author, co-editor of the volume For the Life of the World, and Chair of the Special Commission that prepared the text, currently serving as Executive Director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. Also participating on the panel will be Anna Diamantopoulou, director of the think tank Diktio; Maria Kokkinou, director of Akritas Books; Domna Michailidou, Minister of Social Cohesion and Family; Gerasimos Siasos, Rector of the University of Athens; and Evangelos Venizelos, former Vice President of the Hellenic Republic. The discussion will be facilitated by theologian Stavros Yangazoglou of the University of Athens.
On Friday, December 5, 2025, in the morning, Archbishop Elpidophoros will travel to Patras. There he will be received at the Metropolis of Patras by His Eminence Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Patras. Later that day, at the University of Patras, he will be proclaimed Honorary Doctor of the Department of Management Science and Technology during a ceremony in the Odysseas Elytis Ceremony Hall in the administration building of the University. As part of the event, the Archbishop will deliver an address on “The Role of Religion in Contemporary Society.”
On Saturday, December 6, 2025, in the morning, Archbishop Elpidophoros will depart from Athens for New York City.
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