Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew arrived in Athens today to attend the events for the completion and restoration of 40 grave monuments at the cemetery of Sisli in Istanbul.
The Ecumenical Patriarch, who will stay in Athens until Friday, will meet with Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos on Wednesday and afterwards he will attend the screening of a film on Sisli cemetery at the Athens College.
In the evening, he will open the international congress of Environmental Health at the Herod Atticus Theatre which is organised by the Biomedical Research Foundation of Athens Academy.
On Thursday, Bartholomew will visit, for the first time, the island of Hydra where he will be declared honorary citizen.
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