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Vatican delegation to visit Αrchbishop Ieronymos ahead of fragments reunification ceremony

Greece Church
Published by VEMA

A four-member delegation from the Vatican will meet with His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece on Friday, ahead of a ceremony to mark the return of three marble fragments from the Parthenon to the Acropolis Museum.

Kept at the Vatican Museums, the three pieces were gifted personally by Pope Francis to the Archbishop of Athens, and an agreement to that effect was signed in Rome by Greek and Vatican officials on 7 March 2023. The reunification event will be held at at the Museum at 5.30 p.m. on Friday, 24 March 2023, and will be attended by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Archdiocese said.

The Catholic delegation is headed by Bishop Brian Farrell, secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, and includes Under-Secretary Monsignor Andrea Palmieri, Director of the Vatican Museums, Dr. Barbara Jatta, and Archbishop Jan Romeo Pawłowski, Apostolic Nuncio to Greece.

Source: ekathimerini.com

Vatican delegation to visit Αrchbishop Ieronymos ahead of fragments reunification ceremony - Vema.com.au

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