Editing Bartholomew I of Constantinople (section)

== Early life and background ==
Dimitrios Arhondonis was born in the village of [[Zeytinliköy, Gökçeada|Agioi Theodoroi]] on the island of [[Imbros]] (now Gökçeada, Turkey), son of Christos and Meropi Archodónis (née Skarlatos), both of [[Greeks|Greek]] descent. He was the fourth and last child and as a boy helped his father in his coffee shop that also doubled as a barber's.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cnn.gr/ellada/story/279377/patriarxis-vartholomaios-paralogo-kai-adiko-na-fovoyntai-kapoioi-na-kanoyn-to-emvolio |title=Πατριάρχης Βαρθολομαίος: Παράλογο και άδικο να φοβούνται κάποιοι να κάνουν το εμβόλιο |website=[[CNN]] |date=28 August 2021}}</ref>

He began his studies at Imbro and went on to attend the [[Zografeion Lyceum]] high school in Istanbul, then entered the [[Halki Seminary|Theological School of Halki]] on the island of that name ([[Turkish language|Turkish]]: [[Heybeliada]]), in the [[Sea of Marmara]]. There he gained a doctorate in theology. On 13 August 1961, he was ordained deacon and in the years 1961–1963 completed military service in the Turkish army with the rank of sublieutenant. Following this, from 1963 to 1968, with a study bourse from the Ecumenical Patriarchate, he gained diplomas in postgraduate specialization at the [[Pontifical Oriental Institute|Oriental Institute]] of the [[Pontifical Gregorian University|Gregorian University]] in [[Rome]], the [[Bossey Ecumenical Institute|Ecumenical Institute of Bossey (Switzerland)]] and the [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]]. Subsequently, he gained a doctorate from Rome's Gregorian University with a thesis regarding the codification of the canons and canonical decrees in the Orthodox Church, perfecting also in these years his knowledge of Latin, Italian, French, English, and German.

=== Ordinations and ecclesiastical appointments ===
* 13 August 1961: [[Diaconate]] – receiving the [[ecclesiastical]] name Bartholomew
* 19 October 1969: [[Priesthood]]
* 25 December 1973: [[Episcopacy]] – [[Metropolis of Philadelphia]] ([[Anatolia|Asia Minor]])
* 14 January 1990: Enthronement as metropolitan of [[Chalcedon]]
* 22 October 1991: Elected archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and [[ecumenical patriarch]]
* 2 November 1991: Enthronement in the Patriarchal Cathedral in the [[Phanar]]