The Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (AEP)’s direct and indirect support of the Ecumenical Patriarchate between 2002 and 2025 has amounted to a staggering $73,969,933. This is vivid and striking testimony to the remarkable impact that the AEP has had over the last 24 years upon the ability of the Holy Mother Church of Constantinople to fulfill its sacred mission in perpetuity.
Archon National Commander Dr. Anthony J. Limberakis requested a detailed report in order to quantify the diakonia of the AEP, which Archon Chris E. Tsamutalis, CPA, Assistant Treasurer, prepared, along with Assistant Treasurer Emeritus Archon Andreas D. Comodromos, CPA. This report showed that the AEP has donated nothing less than $47,360,142 to various initiatives benefiting the Ecumenical Patriarchate; these include the full gamut of the Archons’ domestic and international religious freedom programming (documentation available upon request). This $47,360,142, coupled with the $26,609,791 raised by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation, another initiative of the AEP, amounts to a remarkable $73,969,933.
This inspiring show of love and devotion to the Sacred Center of our Orthodox Faith has manifested itself in a wide variety of different forms, direct donations and funds collected at the AEP’s annual Athenagoras Human Rights Award Banquets and Archon Weekends.
The Archons’ dedicated generosity toward the Ecumenical Patriarchate has also been on abundant display at its Religious Freedom Missions to Turkey, the nations holding the presidency of the European Union, and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, as well as at meetings of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Warsaw, Poland; the four Archon International Religious Freedom Conferences, which were held in Athens, Greece; Brussels, Belgium; Berlin, Germany; and Washington, D.C., respectively.
Nor does the support end there. The Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate assumed significant expense involved in the Holy and Great Council of Crete in 2016, as well as of the Apostolic Visitations to the United States by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
In addition to all this are the funds that the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation, a watershed initiative of the AEP, has raised to enable the Ecumenical Patriarchate to carry out its global sacred mission in perpetuity. FOUNDERS of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation have committed to ensuring the financial foundation of the Holy Mother Church the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople by pledging $100,000 over 10 years.
Dr. Anthony J. Limberakis, National Commander of the AEP, stated: “I am extremely humbled and grateful to our Lord and Savior for the extraordinary diakonia offered by our devoted and devout Band of Archon Brothers in service to the Great Church of Christ.”
