Visit of the new General Secretary of the World Council of Churches to the Ecumenical Patriarchate

The New Secretary General of the World Council of Churches (WCC), Rev. Dr. Jerry Pillay, University Professor, is currently undertaking an official five-day visit to the headquarters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, accompanied by colleges of the Organisation. It is his first official trip to a WCC member Church  since assuming his duties on January 1 of this year.

Rev. Dr. Jerry Pillay, was warmly received on Friday, 10 March 2023, by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. This official reception was preceded by the collaboration of the Synodal Committee on Inter-Christian and Inter-religious Dialogues, under its President, His Eminence Elder Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, with the Delegation of the World Council of Churches.

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