Ecumenical Patriarch delivers keynote address on Theosis in Leuven

From January 29 - February 1, 2015, His All-Holiness visited the Holy Metropolis of Belgium in response to an invitation to deliver the keynote address at the Catholic University of Leuven's conference on "Christian Doctrines of Divinization East and West." The other addresses were delivered by the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Bishop Johan Bonny of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Antwerp, Professor Martin Laird OSA of Villanova University, Professor Ivana Noble of Charles University in Prague and Professor George Pattison of the University of Glasgow.
On Friday morning, January 30, 2015, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew met with King Philippe of Belgium and Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders. Later that afternoon, he also met with the Orthodox and Roman Catholic bishops in Belgium.

During this official visit, His All-Holiness was accompanied by Metropolitans Athenagoras of Belgium and Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia, Grand Archdeacon Andreas, Mr. Peter Bazkarlo and Mr. Nikolaos Manginas.

Source: OCP