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Perhaps most unusually, he has gained a reputation as a prominent environmentalist, putting the support of the Patriarchate behind various international environmental causes. | Perhaps most unusually, he has gained a reputation as a prominent environmentalist, putting the support of the Patriarchate behind various international environmental causes. | ||
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* Bartholomew I (Ecumenical Patriarch). ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=citwDOTiWV8C&source=gbs_navlinks_s Encountering the Mystery: Understanding Orthodox Christianity Today].'' Random House of Canada, 2008. ISBN 9780385518130 | * Bartholomew I (Ecumenical Patriarch). ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=citwDOTiWV8C&source=gbs_navlinks_s Encountering the Mystery: Understanding Orthodox Christianity Today].'' Random House of Canada, 2008. ISBN 9780385518130 | ||
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He was born on Imvros, an island in the Aegean Sea belonging to Turkey. By citizenship he is Turkish, but belongs ethnically to the remnants of the Greek community that used to exist in Turkey, before the exchange of Turks in Greece with Greeks in Turkey as required by the agreements signed by two countries.
As Patriarch, he has been particularly active internationally. One of his first focuses has been on rebuilding the once-persecuted Orthodox Churches of the former Eastern Bloc following the fall of Communism there in 1990. As part of this effort he has worked to strengthen ties amongst the various national Churches and Patriarchates of the Orthodox Church. He has also continued the reconciliation dialogues with the Roman Catholic Church started by his predecessors, and initiated dialogues with other faiths, including Christian, Muslim, and Jewish sects. He is sometimes accused of acting in an authoritarian, almost papal manner by some of his detractors, especially regarding his actions toward the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
Perhaps most unusually, he has gained a reputation as a prominent environmentalist, putting the support of the Patriarchate behind various international environmental causes.
Books Authored in English
- Bartholomew I (Ecumenical Patriarch). Encountering the Mystery: Understanding Orthodox Christianity Today. Random House of Canada, 2008. ISBN 9780385518130
Bartholomew I (Archontonis) of Constantinople | ||
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Preceded by: Iakovos |
Metropolitan of Philadelphia 1973-1990 |
Succeeded by: Meliton (Karas) |
Preceded by: Meliton (Hadjis) |
Metropolitan of Chalcedon 1990-1991 |
Succeeded by: Joachim (Neradjoulis) |
Preceded by: Demetrius I (Papadopoulos) |
Patriarch of Constantinople 1991-present |
Succeeded by: — |
External links
- Official biography
- The 2008 TIME 100 Leaders & Revolutionaries - Bartholomew I by Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, head of the Anglican Church.
- RealVideo Interview with His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (1994)
- Patriarch Bartholomew I on Unity (Videos - Windows Media): [1], [2]
- Bartholomew - Church of Constantinople website
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