His All-Holiness our Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain with the Venerable Choir of Synodal Metropolitans of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. For a year, His Eminence will travel monthly to the Phanar to participate in the regular sessions of the Synod.