Bishop-elect Gregory of Nyssa and Metropolitan Anthony of Hierapolis at the Ecumenical Patriarchate
On Friday, November 2, 2012, His All- Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew received the newly-elected Bishop Grigory of Nyssa (for the Carpatho-Russians of the USA) at the Phanar. The official proclamations,Election of new Metropolitan
On Tuesday, October 30, 2012, the Holy and Sacred Synod, at the recommendation of His All-Holiness, unanimously elected the Grand Archimandrite Athenagoras to the rank of Metropolitan Kydonion. The officialFuneral of Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria
On Friday, November 9, 2012, His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided over the funeral service for the late Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria together with Patriarch Irinej of Serbia, Archbishop