The former prime minister of Canada at the Ecumenical Patriarchate
By:
Kiki Danaktsis
1/7/2010
The former prime minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney and his wife visited the Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos at Phanar. The former prime minister and his wife, who is Christian Orthodox, visited Istanbul in order for Mulroney to lecture at the University and they went for worship at the Patriarchal Church of Saint George at Phanar. After the end of the Divine Liturgy, the Patriarch welcomed them in his office.
The former prime minister of Canada and his wife expressed their happiness for the meeting and they underlined the importance of the great Orthodox presence in Canada, consisting of many nationalities. They also referred to the Greek-Orthodox Metropolis of Toronto that belongs to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
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