Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Washington: Warm welcome by Kimberly Guilfoyle

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was warmly received successful Washington by the United States Ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle, who highlighted his planetary spiritual radiance and the value of collaboration successful promoting faith, spiritual freedom, and friendship.

The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was welcomed successful Washington, wherever his beingness was described arsenic a “deep honor” by the American ambassador to Greece. Ms. Guilfoyle emphasized that “his spiritual guidance inspires hundreds of millions of radical astir the world” and added that the Patriarch’s sojourn to the United States “confirms the unbreakable ties betwixt the United States, Greece, and the planetary Orthodox Christian community.”

She besides expressed her volition to enactment intimately with the Patriarch, underlining that the extremity is “to beforehand faith, spiritual freedom, and relationship for aboriginal generations.” The Patriarch’s sojourn to Washington is portion of a broader bid of engagements highlighting the relation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate arsenic a spiritual notation constituent for Orthodoxy internationally, arsenic good arsenic the value of spiritual diplomacy successful U.S.–Greece relations.

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