Interview of Rev. Our Metropolitan, Mr. Anthimou in the show "Kath' odon" and the journalist Demosthenes Doukastranslated

"The position and relationship of Orthodoxy in Europe today"

Journalist: Today we will have the opportunity to draw from His Eminence's speech and reflection from a recent publication released on September 3, entitled "The Place and Relationship of Orthodoxy in Europe Today." This book includes chapters that unfold the entire history as well as the current perspective, attitude and position of Orthodoxy, as well as the proposals you make on how Orthodoxy will give meaning to Western civilization and not just Europe. So let's start our dialogue and irrigate your thinking with the topic of what Europe is like today, that is, how you perceive it.

Metropolitan Anthimos: It is indeed a crossroads for Orthodoxy, which has not known many crossroads in its life. Just as it started with Christ and the Apostles, it passed through Hellenism, it created that miracle of Greek-Christian civilization - as it is now mentioned everywhere - Eastern Christianity, Byzantine as we say recently. And today he is at this crossroads, of a conflict—in a good sense I mean it—of a full-frontal confrontation with…