29. November 2023

NAPS Institute began its jubilee year with the Ecumenical Patriarch

Council members of NAPS Institute, Peter and Lenka Solej, visited the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul this week, which is the seat of the spiritual leader of 270 million Orthodox Christians worldwide. “It is with great gratitude that we accepted the invitation of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople to celebrate the Vespers of the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, as well as for other events on the occasion of the Thronal Feast of the Ecumenical Patriarchate,” founder and director of NAPS Institute, Peter Solej, told the media. “We sincerely appreciate that His All Holiness also granted us a special audience, during which we talked about current events in Slovakia, but also about the upcoming 20th anniversary of the founding of the NAPS Institute. Together with Lenka, we were very pleased that the Patriarch accepted as a gift a handwritten, silver and gold-gilded icon of the miracle worker of these times, St. Charbel also with the relic of his oil, which is the newest product from our e-shop www.nebonazemi.sk ,” added Solej. This week, NAPS representatives met with the Ecumenical Patriarch for the eighth time.

During the visit to Turkey, the guests from Slovakia also met with Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Christian Unity, who made his first ever visit to Slovakia in 2017 at the invitation of NAPS Institute.

On the eve of the Thronal Feast, the Ecumenical Patriarchate also organized a concert by the world-famous Duo Violins and a reception served in the cultural center of the Patriarchate in Istanbul.