On Thursday the 31st of January/13th of February 2014, Her Eminence Ms Georgia Kokkalis-Kouvelis, Vice-Councillor of the region of Thessaly, visited the Patriarchate in the company of her associates. Ms Kokkalis-Kouvelis was received by His Beatitude Theophilos, our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem, in the presence of Hagiotaphite Fathers.
In the context of this visit, a discussion took place on the All-holy Pilgrimage Sites of Orthodoxy in the Holy Land and their safekeeping by the Patriarchate and the Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, through the help of the Byzantine Empire in the past and, in the present day, of pious pilgrims from Greece.
Having received gifts from His Beatitude, Ms Kokkalis and her associates left for the Holy Sepulchre and the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem.