Athens News Agency, Greece
Dec 28 2008
Ecumenical Patriarch receives visiting Athens mayor
ISTANBUL (ANA-MPA) — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
(Vartholomeos) on Sunday received Athens Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis at
his Fanar-district seat in the Bosporus metropolis. Kaklamanis later
met with the mayor of Beyo?Ä?lu (Peran), a historic district in
Istanbul, who also visited the Patriarch on the occasion of the
Christmas holiday.
Bartholomew later received two Armenian Church Archbishops of the
city, representatives of Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople Mesrob
II, who conveyed the latter’s Christmas wishes to the Ecumenical
Patriarch and the Orthodox faithful.