Ο Πρόεδρος της Δημοκρατίας, Προκόπης Παυλόπουλος (Δ), υποδέχεται τον Σεβασμιότατο Αρχιεπίσκοπο Αυστραλίας, Υπέρτιμο και Έξαρχο πάσης Ωκεανίας, κ. Μακάριο (Α), κατά τη συνάντησή τους στο Προεδρικό Μέγαρο, Αθήνα, Κυριακή 2 Ιουνίου 2019. ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ, ΣΥΜΕΛΑ ΠΑΝΤΖΑΡΤΖΗ
President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos on Sunday received the Archbishop of Australia Makarios at the presidential mansion and congratulated him on his enthronement, wishing him every success in his new role at the helm of the Archdiocese of Australia.
He also praised the Archbishop’s many accomplishments, especially his deep knowledge of Bioethics, noting that cloning had been the subject of his postgraduate thesis from the University of Crete Medical School.
“The great importance of Orthodoxy for the support of fundamental principles and values in our time goes beyond the faithful…. This must be understood by the EU, by our great European family. All together we will fight for this just demand….which must also be a European demand, a demand of our culture itself,” Pavlopoulos replied.
Source: ANA-MPA
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