Saturday, July 01, 2006

The New Anatolian-Patriarch Bartholomeos I publishes his childhood memoirs in Turkish

"Patriarch Bartholomeos I publishes his childhood memoirs in Turkish

BENJAMIN HARVEY - The Associated Press / Isttanbul
01 July 2006


A cocktail party may be the last place you'd expect to see the man in Orthodox Christendom. But there was Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomeos I, standing at one end of a hotel terrace overlooking the Sea of Marmara, throwing his own cocktail party on a recent Thursday evening.

The event was the release in Turkish of Bartholomeos' book, 'When a Patriarch was a Child.'"

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