It was a great honor for me last night to be introduced to His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Ecumenical Patriarch Foundation Founders Dinner as a completed Founder at the Hilton Hotel Midtown in Manhattan. When introduced he said to me in the Hellenic with a smile and twinkle “I like your mustache.” I responded “Your-Holiness and I yours.” He responded back “ But yours is thicker.” to which I responded “Perhaps but you also have a beard.” To which we both laughed.
The photo is by professional photographer and friend Jill Nelson.
This weekend will be a busy one for me with Patriarch Bartholomew in New York and the Annual Archon Weekend with many of the events at the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan where I am staying. Tonight was the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation Founders Dinner I was invited to being an original completed Founder. The Foundation in a relatively short time has raised $18 million. It was a very nice elegant Black Tie event with some good friends in attendance. My son John flew in from Dubai to be with us for the weekend and added to the moment.
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