Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch of the Church of Constantinople Bartholomew visited the Russian embassy in Ankara, where he made a memorial service at the site of the future memorial dedicated to Andrei Karlov, who was killed at the opening of the photo exhibition in Ankara in 2016.
The press attache of the Russian diplomatic mission Irina Kasimova noted that it was the first such visit of the Primate of the Constantinople Orthodox Church in the history of the existence of the Soviet and Russian diplomatic mission in Ankara, TASS reported.
