Demetrios I of Constantinople

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Demetrios I
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

Installed	July 16, 1973
Term ended	October 2, 1991
Predecessor	Athenagoras I
Successor	Bartholomew I
Personal details
Born	Demetrios Papadopoulos (1914-09-08)September 8, 1914 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey)
Died	October 2, 1991(1991-10-02) (aged 77) Phanar, Istanbul, Turkey
Nationality	Ottoman and Turkish
Denomination	Eastern Orthodox Church

Demetrios I also Dimitrios I or Demetrius I, born Demetrios Papadopoulos (Greek: Δημήτριος Αʹ, Δημήτριος Παπαδόπουλος; September 8, 1914 – October 2, 1991) was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from July 16, 1973, to October 2, 1991. He was the 269th successor to St. Andrew (the apostle to whom the See of Constantinople traces its roots), and was the spiritual leader of more than 5 million Eastern Orthodox Christians.^[1] Before his election as patriarch he served as the metropolitan bishop of Imvros. He was born and died in Constantinopole, in modern day Turkey.

Role in ecumenism

On November 30, 1979, Demetrios proclaimed the establishment of the official theological dialogue between the Eastern Orthodox and the Catholic Church, at that time led by Pope John Paul II. He also met with two archbishops of Canterbury representing the Anglican Communion.

In 1987, Demetrios travelled to the Vatican where he was received by John Paul II.^[2] At a solemn ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica, the patriarchs of East and West together recited the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of the Church in Greek as originally defined in AD 381, without the controversial Filioque clause. The Pope later recalled the event in his ecumenical encyclical letter Ut Unum Sint.^[3]

In an 8-city tour of the United States in 1990, Patriarch Demetrios met with President George H. W. Bush, with Christian and Jewish leaders, and with public officials, and spread the message that: "Today, Orthodoxy is not a strange or alien factor in America. It is flesh of its flesh and bone of its bone".^[4]^[5]

References

^ New York Times | 1991-10-03 | https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/03/world/dimitrios-i-eastern-orthodox-patriarch-77-dies.html
^ Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Joint Declaration of Pope John Paul II and Patriarch Dimitrios I, 7 December 1987, accessed 24 August 2021
^ John Paul II, Ut Unum Sint: On commitment to Ecumenism, 25 May 1995, paragraph 24
^ New York Times | 1990-07-03 | https://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/03/us/patriarch-begins-8-city-tour-of-us.html
^ Image of Patriarch Demetrios I with US President George H.W. Bush | 1990-07-08 | https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/file-photo-dated-july-8-1990-shows-former-us-president-news-photo/1067065308

Eastern Orthodox Church titles
Preceded by Athenagoras I	Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople 1973–1991	Succeeded by Bartholomew I
Regnal titles
Preceded by New office	Co-Head of State of Mount Athos 1975–1991	Succeeded by Bartholomew I

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Patriarchs of Constantinople (Turkish period, since 1923 AD)	Gregory VII Constantine VI Basil III Photius II Benjamin Maximus V Athenagoras Demetrius Bartholomew
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