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Message of His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch on the Day of Prayer for the Protection of the Natural Environment

1September 2025

Archbishop Bartholomew,

Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch

Your Honorable Brothers Hierarchs and Children Blessed in the Lord,

Thankful to the all-encompassing God, we enter today into the new ecclesiastical year, praising His heavenly name for the inseparable fruitfulness of the initiatives of His Holy Great Church in the area of the protection of creation. The Ecumenical Patriarchate not only highlighted the seriousness of environmental problems, but also drew attention to their causes, to their internal, spiritual and moral origins, and proposed solutions on the basis of the Orthodox Eucharistic and ascetic ethos.

Read the full message: Patriarchal Message for the Day of Prayer for the Protection of the Natural Environment | fosfoanariou.gr | 27 August 2025 (English translation available)

Please scroll to the end of the page for the Patriarchal Message for the Beginning of the Ecclesiastical Year and the Solemn Day of Prayers for Natural Environment (September 1, 2025)