Dr. Tamás Sulyok attended the opening of Notre-Dame

Around 40 heads of state and government attended the opening ceremony of the Paris Cathedral, rebuilt after the 2019 fire. Among them were French President Emmanuel Macron, US President-elect Donald Trump, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, British Crown Prince William, Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok, several former French heads of state and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

In his speech, French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his gratitude to the French nation for the rebuilding of Notre-Dame. He declared: We must preserve as a treasure this lesson of fragility, humility, and willpower. We must not forget how much we all matter and how inseparable the greatness of this Cathedral is from the work of all of us.

In his message, Pope Francis wrote: "Let the rebirth of this amazing church be a visionary sign of the renewal of the Church in France".

According to Dr. Tamás Sulyok, President of Hungary, "Christianity is the past, present and future of Europe". In a post on his social media platform on the occasion of the event, the President added a quote from Victor Hugo: "It was enduring; now it is immortal. What is great can be destroyed, but can the omnipresent ever be annihilated? "

Notre-Dame, 860 years old, has been carefully restored, with a new Hussars tower and vault, its buttresses and gargoyles restored to their former beauty, and its white stone and gilded ornaments shining brightly once again. Thousands of experts - carpenters, stonemasons, stained glass artists - have worked at a fast pace to restore the Cathedral, using traditional methods to restore, repair and replace what has been destroyed or damaged.