The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Tuesday received Rashad Hussain, the visiting US ambassador at large for international religious freedom, at Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Phanar See.
Issues discussed related to the life and ministry of the Mother Church in of Constantinople, as well as the situation of remaining Christians in Turkey.
In the early afternoon, His All Holiness arrived at the general consulate of the United Kingdom in the Bosporus metropolis, where the Primate of the Mother Church signed a book of condolences opened on the occasion of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.