Our Hierarchs His All Holiness, Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch is the 270th successor of the 2,000 year-old local Christian Church founded by St. Andrew. As Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, Patriarch Bartholomew occupies the First Throne of the Orthodox Christian Church and presides in fraternal spirit among all the Orthodox Primates. Born: February 29, 1940 Diaconate: August 13, 1961 Holy Priesthood: October 19, 1969 Enthronement as Metropolitan of Philadelphia: Christmas 1973 Enthronement as Metropolitan of Chalcedon: January 14, 1990 Enthronement in the Patriarchal Cathedral: November 2, 1991 Patronal Feast Day: June 11 His All Holiness Bartholomew Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch His Eminence, Elpidophoros, Archbishop of America was born in 1967 in Bakirkoy, Istanbul, Turkey. He studied at the Theological School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, from which he graduated in 1991. He was ordained a Deacon in 1994 and was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Holy and Sacred Synod in 1995. In March 2005 he was promoted to the position of Chief Secretary and was subsequently ordained to the Holy Priesthood. In March 2011 he was elected Metropolitan of Bursa and in August of that same year was appointed Abbot of the Holy Patriarchal and Stavropegial Monastery of the Holy Trinity on the island of Chalki. He was enthroned as Archbishop of America on June 22, 2019 in New York City. His Eminence, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
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