Get a sense of what it was like to be there: this brisk and bracing three-minute video takes you inside the 4th Archon International Conference on Religious Freedom, which was held from May 26 to 29, 2024 in Athens, Greece. 

Organized and hosted by the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in America, Canada, Europe and Australia, and followed by the historic First Global Summit of Archons, the conference featured some of the world’s foremost defenders of human rights and religious freedom, including His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (via video); His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece; His Eminence Metropolitan Emmanuel, Geron of Chalcedon; His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America; former U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo; Dr. Despina Chatzivassiliou-Tsovilis, Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe; His Excellency Gintaras Grušas, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vilnius and President of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE); and many others.

This video encapsulates and expresses the core mission of the Archons: to protect and defend the religious freedom of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and of all people of faith worldwide. See complete videos of all the Conference proceedings here.