Background
I, Bartholomew was born on February 29, 1940 in Island of Imvros, Turkey. Son of Christos and Merope Archondonis.
I, Bartholomew was born on February 29, 1940 in Island of Imvros, Turkey. Son of Christos and Merope Archondonis.
Graduate with highest honors, Theological School Halki, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, 1961. Student, Ecumenical Institute, Bossey, Switzerland. Student, University Munich.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Athens. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Holy Cross Orthodox School Theology. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Theological Academy Moscow.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Crete School Philosophy. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), City University, London. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Aegean University.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Orthodox Theological Institute of Saint Sergius, Paris. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Edinburgh. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Louvain.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Flinders University. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Salonika. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Georgetown University.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Tufts University. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Southern Methodist University. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Yale University.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), St. Andrew’s College. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Bucharest and Iasi.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Sherbrooke University. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Adamson University. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Exeter University.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Thessalia. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Batum. Doctor in Canon Law (honorary), Aix-en-Provence University.
Assistant dean Theological School Halki, 1968. Consecrated archimandrite, 1970. Administrative private Patriarchal Office of Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios, 1972-1990.
Metropolitan See of Philadelphia Asia Minor, 1973. Metropolitan of Chalcedon, 1990. Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, since 1991.
Assistant dean Theological School Halki, 1968. Director Private Patriarchal Office, 1972. Member Holy and Sacred Synod, since 1974, Executive and Central Committees WCC, since 1991.
Military service, 1961-1963.
Fellow: Orthodox Academy Crete. Member: Society Canon Law of Oriental Churches, Pro-Oriente Foundation (honorary).