Orthodox Christian Statements on the Environment

Orthodox Christianity - following the widely recognized leadership of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew - has issued a number of important statements on the environment.

• Message for the Day of the Protection of the Environment, 1989 - Ecumenical Patriarch Demetrios I
  

• Address during the official opening of the first international symposium - Revelation and the Environment, 1995 - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
  

• Common Declaration of Pope John Paul II and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Fourth Ecological Symposium on the Adriatic Sea, 2002

For links to over 200 statements by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I on the environment, and for more information about Bartholomew's ecological commitment, click here.