On the morning of 4th March 2010, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, received a visit from the Honourable Mayors of Pella, Mr. Apostolos Tsaltaferides, Dios, Mr Gregory Papachristou, and the Honourable Deputy Mayor of Vergina, Mrs Sophia Akrivopoulou.
The Mayors and the Deputy Mayor, who are visiting Alexandria within the framework of the organization of fraternization events of the relative Municipalities with the Great City, held discussions with His Beatitude regarding the missionary work undertaken by the Alexandrian Church in Africa, the social work of their Municipalities and extended an official invitation to His Beatitude to visit these historic towns in Macedonia.
Commemorative gifts were then exchanged and the visitors were taken on a guided tour of the Patriarchal Mansion and the Patriarchal Library of Alexandria.