His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew made Fellow of the Ecclesiastical Law Society

June 23, 2025

On Saturday 21 June, His All-Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome, gave the final keynote address at our 2025 Conference ‘Nicaea Received’, taking place in Chichester.

At the conclusion of the address, His All-Holiness was awarded a Fellowship of the Ecclesiastical Law Society by our President, the Rt Revd Christopher Hill, in Chichester Cathedral. This is the first Fellowship in the Society’s history, and is an award reserved for those who have made “a contribution of great and lasting significance to the study and of ecclesiastical and canon law”. Our President noted that His All-Holiness “has addressed the principles of Christian Law; issues to do with Europe (and the EU) and religion; Human Rights and Orthodoxy; and Religious Freedom. He has written on the changeability of Canons. In addition to this he has consistently encouraged the ecumenical study of canon law and the Ecumenical Christian Law Panel.” It is a very great honour to the Society to count His All-Holiness as our first fellow.

A full report of the Conference will appear on this website in the coming days, and it is hoped that papers from the Conference will be published in a forthcoming edition of the Ecclesiastical Law Journal.