The Ecumenical Patriarch celebrated 65 years since he was ordained a deacon: My entire journey has been a life in dialoguetranslated

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I celebrated the 65th anniversary of his ordination as a deacon on Thursday in his native island of Imbros (Gökçeada). "My entire journey has been a life in dialogue," emphasized His Holiness.

The Holy Liturgy was officiated by the Ecumenical Patriarch, together with His Beatitude Father Theodore II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, and His Beatitude Father John, Archbishop of Tirana, Durrës and all Albania. at the Assumption Metropolitan Cathedral in Panagia (Gökçeada), Turkey.

The service was also attended by Metropolitans Emmanuel of Chalcedon, Meliton of Philadelphia, Chrysostom of the Brides (Ecumenical Patriarchate) and George of Guinea (Patriarchy of Alexandria), as well as Archimandrite Bartholomew, abbot of the Athonite Esphigmenu Monastery.

Metropolitan Cyril of Imvros and Tenedos, the Roman Catholic Archbishop Massimiliano Palinuro of Constantinople, the monk Tarasie Koutloumousian, representative of the Holy Chinotite of the Holy Mount Athos, Athonite monks, representatives of the authorities and numerous believers and compatriots of the Ecumenical Patriarch attended.

In the service of all the fullness…