Evangelos Venizelos discusses Ecumenical Patriarchate’s role and modern challenges at Athens Lecture

Former Greek Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos delivered a lecture on the role of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the contemporary world on Monday, October 12, 2026, at the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens.

The event, which attracted a large audience, was the second in a series of academic lectures titled “The Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Orthodox Church and the Contemporary World,” organized by the Athens Representation Office of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

Venizelos, Professor Emeritus of Constitutional Law at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, spoke on the theme “The Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Primacy of the Word in a Troubled World.”

The lecture series was launched last May in cooperation with a scientific committee of professors from the Faculty of Theology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and is held under the patronage of Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece.

The event opened with welcoming remarks by Metropolitan Theodoritos of Laodicea, Director of the Athens Representation Office of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

Among those attending were Secretary General for Religious Affairs Georgios…