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Elpidophoros Deplores 50th Anniversary of Halki Seminary Closure
” width=”769″>Halki Seminary in Heybeliada, on the island of Halki, off Istanbul, Turkey. Credit: Darwinek/Wikimedia Commons/ CC-BY-SA-3.0
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America addressed the solemn anniversary of Turkey’s abrupt closure of the Greek Orthodox Halki Seminary in 1971, ending the institution’s work of educating generations of clergymen.
Interviewed by Dwight Bashir of the United States Commission on International Freedom (USCIRF), the Archbishop of the Americas made his remarks the on the podcast “USCIRF Spotlight.”
” width=”1080″>His Eminence appeared on the program on the sad occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the closure of the venerable Theological School of Halki in 1971.