Maximos Vgenopoulos Author

The Very Reverend Maximos Vgenopoulos is currently the Grand Archdeacon of the Ecumenical Patriarch. He completed his doctoral studies in systematic theology at the University of London (Heythrop College) in 2008, and has served the Ecumenical Patriarchate as a participant in the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church 2007-present), and as the Codicographer of the Holy and Sacred Synod (1995-2005).

HIS ALL-HOLINESS ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, is the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians throughout the world and 270th successor to St. Andrew the Apostle, founder of the Church of Constantinople.