Dimitrios Arhondonis took the name Bartholomeos after graduating from the Heybeliada Seminary on the Princes’ Islands in Istanbul and becoming Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church. Yesterday his new book, in Turkish,
"Bir Patrik Çocukken (When a Patriarch was a Child), was launched at a ceremony at the Armada Hotel,
where the Patriarch signed copies for his readers. Published by the Bizim Deniz Publishing company, translated into Turkish by Ari Çokona and edited by Editor-in-Chief Celal Başlangiç, the book is a collection of essays written during the Patriarch’s primary and secondary school years. In his preface to the book, Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Hatemi stresses that Patriarch Bartholomeos is not only a warm-hearted spiritual leader, but also a dedicated environmentalist, adding his heartfelt wishes that the Patriarch will write his memoirs in the near future…
Dimitrios Arhondonis took the name Bartholomeos after graduating from the Heybeliada Seminary on the Princes’ Islands in Istanbul and becoming Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church. Yesterday his new book, in Turkish, "Bir Patrik Çocukken (When a Patriarch was a Child), was launched at a ceremony at the Armada Hotel, 
where the Patriarch signed copies for his readers. Published by the Bizim Deniz Publishing company, translated into Turkish by Ari Çokona and edited by Editor-in-Chief Celal Başlangiç, the book is a collection of essays written during the Patriarch’s primary and secondary school years. In his preface to the book, Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Hatemi stresses that Patriarch Bartholomeos is not only a warm-hearted spiritual leader, but also a dedicated environmentalist, adding his heartfelt wishes that the Patriarch will write his memoirs in the near future…
