MPs Mr Panicos Leonidou, leader, and Mr Efthimios Diplaros, member of the Cypriot delegation to the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy (IPA), will leave tomorrow for Poland to participate in a mission of the Assembly. The IOA delegation will be led by Mr Leonidou, at the invitation of the Secretary General of the IOA, Greek MP Dr Maximos Charakopoulos, and will also include Armenian MP Mr Sisak Gabrielyan, Polish MP Mr Eugeniusz Czykwin and IOA Advisor Mr Kostas Mydalis.
The IOA visit is part of the IOA's global campaign to raise awareness of international public opinion on the condemnation of the conversion of Istanbul's Hagia Sophia into a mosque.
On Saturday, the Polish edition of the IOA's tribute volume "Hagia Sophia: The Temples of the Wisdom of God around the World" at the Holy Metropolitan Church of the Immaculate Conception in Suprasl in eastern Poland and, on Sunday, the IOA delegation will attend the consecration ceremony of the Holy Church of the Wisdom of God in Warsaw at the invitation of Metropolitan Sava of Warsaw and All Poland.
On Monday, 15 May 2023, the delegation will be received by the President of the Polish Senate, Mr. Tomasz Grodzki, and will have separate meetings with the First Vice President of the Sejm of Poland, Mr. Ryszard Terlecki, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Poland, Mr. Wojciech Polak, as well as with other state and church officials of the country.
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