Spiritual leader to 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide as the 270th Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome
His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
- Spiritual leader to 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide as the 270th Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome
- Actively promotes reconciliation as well as human rights and religious tolerance, international peace and environmental protection
- Has tirelessly addressed the specter of international terrorism and the importance of interfaith dialogue and action to go with issuing influential declarations against extremism, violence and war
- For his achievements, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the United States Congress in 1997
- Affectionately known as the “Green Patriarch,” His All-Holiness has been a trailblazer on the issues related to the protection of the natural environment, organizing numerous symposia and summits on the ecological crisis
- In 2008, he was named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World for “defining environmentalism as a spiritual responsibility.”
