09 April 2009
His Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Paris
Accompanied by Orthodox bishops in Paris, including His Eminence Metropolitan John of the Antiochian Archdiocese, his Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew paid a visit to the interior minister, Ms Michèle Alliot-Marie, after the opening of the Mount Athos Exhibition in the city of Paris.