The presidents of the Bishops’ Conferences of South-Eastern Europe, accompanied by experts, will meet for their sixth meeting in the island of Corfu (Greece) from 3 to 5 March. Six Bishops’ Conferences are represented: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and the international Bishops’ Conference of Saints Cyril and Methodius (Serbia and Montenegro – Macedonia). These are “all nations says a press release of the Council of the Bishops’ Conferences of Europe (Ccee) which is promoting the event that have in common the fact of being mainly countries of Orthodox tradition or Moslem religion”. The meeting will also be attended by delegates of the Bishops’ Conference of Greece and representatives of the Holy See and the Commission of the episcopates of the European Community (Comece). The meeting will be opened with a report by Monsignor Franghískos Papamanólis, president of the Bishops’ Conference of Greece, on “Christianity and the Church in Greece”. On Saturday 4 March, the session will be entirely dedicated to the question of migration. Each president will describe the situation, problems and pastoral initiatives linked to migration in his own country. In the afternoon the participants will go on pilgrimage to the sanctuary of St. Spiritone, and will meet the Orthodox Metropolitan Nektarios and the Mayor of Corfu. The meeting will end on Sunday 5 March.
