Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is on the second day of his visit to Athens today. He met with Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and all Greece before attending a screening of a film on Sisli cemetary in Istanbul at the Athens College.

The two religious leaders had a cordial meeting. Archbishop Ieronymos asked the patriarch to pray “for Greece and for the unity of the Church.”

At 9 p.m. this 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.