Orthodox Patriarchate in Turkey Wins One Battle, Still Faces Struggle for Survival

Eurasianet.org: “The legal hurdles still threatening the Patriarchate’s existence are formidable, and in an interview last December, the church’s leader, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, told the Milliyet newspaper: ‘We are without oxygen. The Patriarchate is dying.’ Bartholomew is regarded as the spiritual leader of the world’s 300 million Eastern Orthodox Christians, and his church has existed in Istanbul, formerly know as Constantinople, for more than 1,700 years.”