The renovation of a long-closed Greek Orthodox school on an Istanbul island will be finished in September, although it does not yet have a license to reopen, the patriarchate said on May 10.
Located on Heybeliada, one of the Princes’ Islands, the Halki seminary opened in the mid-19th century and was the main theological school for the Eastern Orthodox Church until it was closed under Turkish law in 1971.
Despite decades of pressure on Ankara to reopen it, led by Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I, the school has remained shut, although earlier this week, he said he was “optimistic” about the possibility of it reopening.
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