Allow me as Metropolitan of Germany and as Chairman of the Orthodox Bishops’ Conference in Germany (OBKD), which offers a spiritual home for well over a million Orthodox Christians in this country, to welcome you to Berlin. I am very glad that you have again managed, honorable Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, to organize such an important conference, this time here in a capital of Europe. I am confident that you will succeed in providing us with ample food for thought.