German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere was received by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Thursday in Fanar .
“A United Europe can not be conceived without Orthodoxy and particularly without this Church here (the Ecumenical Patriarchate) which transmitted the Orthodox civilisation to the West,” de Maiziere said.
The German Minister and Patriarch Bartholomew discussed outstanding issues for the Patriarchate. These include the reopening of the Halki Seminary, property rights of Orthodox foundations and ethnic Greek communities.
The Ecumenical Patriarch expressed his optimism regarding the future despite the existence of pending issues and thanked de Maiziere for Germany’s support to the Patriarchate.
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