BIOGRAPHY OF BARTHOLOMEW ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE, NEW ROME AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH
"There is a great hunger for spirituality;
there is a thirst for transcendent meaning...
and there has never been a greater need
for spiritual leaders to engage themselves
in the affairs of the world."
His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is the 270th successor to the Apostle Andrew and spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide. Since ascending the Ecumenical Throne on November 2nd, 1991, he has tirelessly pursued the vision of his enthronement message