Ecumenist ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople since 1991
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He holds the oldest continuous Christian office still in use — 270th in a line stretching back to the apostles — and has occupied it longer than anyone before him. As Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, he speaks for global Eastern Orthodoxy, and his 2018 decision to recognize Ukraine's independence from Moscow shattered a thousand-year ecclesial bond.
Born Dimitrios Archontonis on 29 February 1940 in a village on the island of Imbros, he studied theology and was ordained a priest, eventually teaching at the Theological School of Halki. He rose through the ranks as Metropolitan of Philadelphia and then Chalcedon, shaping policy within the Holy and Sacred Synod before his election on 22 October 1991. His three decades at the helm have been marked by outreach: formal visits to Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, Oriental Orthodox, and Muslim leaders rarely engaged by predecessors, and persistent advocacy for religious freedom, human rights, and envi…
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We are convinced that the Russian people, at least our Christian Orthodox brothers, can not agree with what is happening to the detriment of their neighboring Ukrainian people
What is happening in Ukraine is a tragedy, it is a disgrace that will stigmatize for ever those who caused it, those who turned out to have no fear of God.
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