The Chargé d’affaires at the US Embassy in Ankara, Jeffery Hove-ni-er, and Embassy Consul General Jennifer Davis, will visit the Theological School of Halki today, one of the Princes islands in the Sea of Marmara . The Ecumenical Patriarchate’s renowned seminary was closed by Turkish authorities in 1971, despite the international pressure to reopen it.
The diplomatic delegation will be welcomed by members of the brotherhood of the seminary, as Abbot of the Monastery of Holy Trinity, which is also located on the island , Metropolitan of Bursa, His Eminence Elpidoforos, is currently lecturing at the University of Thessaloniki, in northern Greece.
