The World Council of Churches will welcome His Holiness Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, on Monday, 24 April.

He will speak about issues concerning the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, the ecumenical movement, the protection of the environment and the protection of children.

A livestream of the lecture (given in English) will be available at www.oikoumene.org/live

Interpretation in French will be available for listeners on site at the Ecumenical Centre.

His All-Holiness Bartholomew's visit to the Ecumenical Centre, where the WCC has its offices, is part of His official visit to Switzerland on the occasion of His 25th anniversary of enthronement as Ecumenical Patriarch, the 50 years of the Orthodox Centre of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Chambésy and the 20th anniversary of the opening of its Institute of Postgraduate Studies, on 22-24 April.