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- Bartholomew was elected metropolitan of Chalcedon in 1990. After Patriarch Dimitrios’s death on October 2, 1991, the Holy Synod of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Istanbul elected Bartholomew as archbishop of Constantinople and ecumenical patriarch, on October 22. He was enthroned on November 2.
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The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople ( Greek: Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, romanized : Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the Archbishop of Constantinople and primus inter pares (first among equals) among the heads of the several autocephalous churches which compose the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, honorary primacy of the Eastern Orthodox autocephalous, or ecclesiastically independent, churches; it is also known as the “ecumenical patriarchate,” or “Roman” patriarchate (Turkish: Rum patriarkhanesi).
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Because of its historical location as the capital of the former Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire and its role as the mother church of most modern Orthodox churches, Constantinople holds a special place of honor within Orthodoxy and serves as the seat for the Ecumenical Patriarch, who enjoys the status of primus inter pares (first among equals ...
Bartholomew ( Greek: Βαρθολομαῖος, Bartholomaĩos; Turkish: Bartholomeos; born 29 February 1940) is the 270th Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch, since 2 November 1991. [1] In accordance with his title, he is regarded as the primus inter pares (first among equals) in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and as a ...
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has fostered dialogue amongst Christianity, Islam and Judaism and has reached out to the Far East. In 1996 he made the first-ever visit of an Ecumenical Patriarch to Hong Kong and established an Orthodox Archdiocese there, the first ever official presence in China since World War II.
Mar 28, 2024 · In 1997 Bartholomew became the first patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church to speak out against the evil of the Holocaust, in this case, while addressing an audience at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum , and he called Israel “the guarantor of the Jewish people’s existence.”.
As "primus" (first) bishop of the Orthodox Church, the Ecumenical Patriarch undertakes various initiatives of Pan-Orthodox character, while coordinating relations between the other Churches of the Orthodox Communion, as well as relations between Orthodoxy as a whole and other Christian Churches or World Religions.
