ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN HIS BELOVED ALEXANDRIA

On 16th March 2017, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, accompanied byu His Eminence Narkissos Metropolitan of Accra and Patriarchal Vicar of Alexandria and the Consul General of Greece in Alexandria, Mr. Emmanuel Kakavelakis, visited Government House of the Great City of Alexandria, where he donated an elaborate bronze bust of Alexander the Great, a unique work by an artisit from Tinos, with the inxcription “Praxitelous”.

Through this symbolic act the Alexandrian Primate commends the symbol of the presence of the Greek Macedonian founder of the Great City of Alexandria, Commander Alexander. In order to promote and to constantly recall through his presence the glorious Greek culture, its universality and the bonds of love, cooperation and mutual peaceful existence which for centuries has bound Hellenism with Egypt, the Land of the Nile.