{"id":371574,"date":"2022-05-20T20:07:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T17:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=371574"},"modified":"2022-05-20T20:07:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T17:07:44","slug":"representatives-of-the-romanian-cultural-institute-visited-the-halki-seminary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/representatives-of-the-romanian-cultural-institute-visited-the-halki-seminary\/","title":{"rendered":"Representatives of the Romanian Cultural Institute visited the Halki Seminary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Andrei Novac, secretary of state for the relationship with the Romanian Cultural Institute and for cultural policies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/halkitheologicalschool\/posts\/5220243154708149\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visited<\/a> on Thursday the Halki Seminary of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The Romanian official was accompanied by Drago\u0219 Tiberiu Ni\u021b\u0103, Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Istanbul, Turkey.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The guests were received by Bishop Kassianos of Aravissos, the abbot of the monastery, and by the Halki congregation, who offered their guests a guided tour of the church, the school and of the historical library of the seminary.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_371570\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-371570\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/reprezentantii-institutului-cultural-roman-din-istanbul-au-vizitat-seminarul-de-la-halki-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-371570 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/reprezentantii-institutului-cultural-roman-din-istanbul-au-vizitat-seminarul-de-la-halki-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-371570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The abbot and the congregation of the Halki Monastery offered their guests a guided tour of the Seminary on Thursday, May 19, 2022. Photo: Facebook \/ Halki Theological School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The seminary is located on a hilltop on Halki Island, near Constantinople (Istanbul) and it was established on the site of a Byzantine monastery dedicated to the Holy Trinity.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_371566\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-371566\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/reprezentantii-institutului-cultural-roman-din-istanbul-au-vizitat-seminarul-de-la-halki-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-371566 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/reprezentantii-institutului-cultural-roman-din-istanbul-au-vizitat-seminarul-de-la-halki-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-371566\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Metropolitan Daniel of Axum (Patriarchate of Alexandria) visited the Halki Seminary on the same day, May 19, 2022. Photo: Facebook\/ Halki Theological School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Halki Seminary has not functioned as a Theological Academy for five decades, after a decision of the Turkish government to close or nationalize all institutions of higher education in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Facebook \/ Halki Theological School<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Follow our English-language News in Brief on Telegram:<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/s\/basilicanews?q=%23newsinbrief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">t.me\/basilicanews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrei Novac, secretary of state for the relationship with the Romanian Cultural Institute and for cultural policies, visited on Thursday the Halki Seminary of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The Romanian official was accompanied by Drago\u0219 Tiberiu Ni\u021b\u0103, Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute in Istanbul, Turkey. The guests were received by Bishop Kassianos of Aravissos, the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":371573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1720,16228,18400,10386,23412],"class_list":["post-371574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autocephalous-orthodox-churches","tag-ecumenical-patriarchate","tag-halki-monastery","tag-halki-seminary","tag-orthodox-news","tag-romanian-cultural-institute"],"better_featured_image":{"id":371573,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":2047,"height":1151,"file":"2022\/05\/reprezentantii-institutului-cultural-roman-din-istanbul-au-vizitat-seminarul-de-la-halki-1.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"reprezentantii-institutului-cultural-roman-din-istanbul-au-vizitat-seminarul-de-la-halki-1-890x500.jpg","width":890,"height":500,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/reprezentantii-institutului-cultural-roman-din-istanbul-au-vizitat-seminarul-de-la-halki-1-890x500.jpg"},"large":{"file":"reprezentantii-institutului-cultural-roman-din-istanbul-au-vizitat-seminarul-de-la-halki-1-1024x576.jpg","width":1024,"height":576,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/reprezentantii-institutului-cultural-roman-din-istanbul-au-vizitat-seminarul-de-la-halki-1-1024x576.jpg"},"thumbnail":{"file":"reprezentantii-institutului-cultural-roman-din-istanbul-au-vizitat-seminarul-de-la-halki-1-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/reprezentantii-institutului-cultural-roman-din-istanbul-au-vizitat-seminarul-de-la-halki-1-360x360.jpg"},"1536x1536":{"file":"reprezentantii-institutului-cultural-roman-din-istanbul-au-vizitat-seminarul-de-la-halki-1-1536x864.jpg","width":1536,"height":864,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/reprezentantii-institutului-cultural-roman-din-istanbul-au-vizitat-seminarul-de-la-halki-1-1536x864.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1653074610","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1","keywords":[]}},"post":371574,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/reprezentantii-institutului-cultural-roman-din-istanbul-au-vizitat-seminarul-de-la-halki-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371574\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=371574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371574\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371573\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=371574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=371574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=371574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}