Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias visited the San Giorgio dei Greci (Saint George of the Greeks) church in Venice during his trip to the Italian city, according to a related post by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Twitter.
“I visited in Venice the San Giorgio dei Greci, the oldest and most historic church of the Greek Diaspora,” noted the foreign minister.
Subsequently, Dendias visited the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine & Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice and the Museum of Icons. As part of the visit, the New Year’s pie was cut, in the presence of Rev. Metropolitan of Italy & Exarch of Southern Europe Polykarpo.
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