His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew arrived at Stockholm Arlanda Airport on Thursday, August 21, 2025 to begin his Patriarchal visit to the Holy Metropolis of Sweden and to the Lutheran Church of Sweden, which invited His All-Holiness to participate in the centennial observance of Sweden’s Ecumenical Week.
At the airport to offer official greetings and welcome to His All-Holiness were His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia and the Most Reverend Martin Modéus, Archbishop of Uppsala and Primate of the Lutheran Church of Sweden. In addition to His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas, the Patriarchal entourage included His Eminence Metropolitan Apostolos of New Jersey; the Very Rev. Grand Ecclesiarch Aetios Nikiforos, Director of the Private Patriarchal Office and devoted assistant to the Ecumenical Patriarch; Patriarchal Deacon Epiphanios Kamyanovich, First-In-Line Deacon.
Greeting His All-Holiness were Dr. Anthony J. Limberakis, National Commander of the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate; Archon National Secretary Gus M. Pablecas; and other dignitaries, including Ekaterini Fountoulaki, the Ambassador of Greece to Sweden; and Yönet Can Tezel, Deputy Chief of Mission of Turkey to Sweden.
A dinner followed, hosted by His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas. His Eminence also extended a warm welcome to the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the United States and all those present, including His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain.
