Metropolitan Athenagoras of Belgium (Ecumenical Patriarchate) gave a speech at the conference held at the European Parliament’s headquarters in Brussels on February 21, entitled “The role of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Orthodox Church and Europe today”. The event was organized in collaboration with Manolis Kefaloyiannis, the MEP for the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), and the metropolitan diocese of Belgium (Ecumenical Patriarchate). The keynote speaker was Metropolitan Bartholomew of