Ecumenical Patriarch and Pope Meet in Holy Land

Photo by John Mindala

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of over 300 million Orthodox faithful worldwide, and Fordham honorary degree recipient, met with Pope Francis on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem on May 26.

Andrea Mennillo, PAR '16, who along with his wife Brunella is a member of Fordham's Parents' Leadership Council,  accompanied the pilgrimage as part of the Orthodox Churches’ delegation.

It was the third and final time the Patriarch and the Pontiff met during their joint pilgrimage to Jerusalem and the Holy Land. 

During their meeting, the Patriarch presented Pope Francis with a copy of a Fordham University Press book In the World, Yet Not Of the World: Social and Global Initiatives of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (FUP, 2009), said Mennillo.  

—Patrick Verel

Ecumenical Patriarch Receives Honorary Degree

From: FordhamUniversity | October 30, 2009 | 0 views
Fordham University conferred an honorary degree upon His All Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, on Oct. 27 on the Rose Hill campus in the Bronx.



The Ecumenical Patriarch, the 270th successor of the 2,000-year-old Christian Church founded by St. Andrew, received a doctorate of laws, honoris causa, at a ceremony attended by more than 1,000 people in the historic University Church.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who has occupied the First Throne of the Orthodox Christian Church since 1991, accepted the honor of being received into the "doctoral college of this esteemed Jesuit school" with sincere gratitude. He then addressed the audience with a speech that touched on "ecumenical consciousness," or the opening of the heart, opening up to others and to all things created by God.

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