On the occasion of a fortieth day requiem prayer service for Metropolitan Evangelos of Perge (member of the Hierarchy of the Ecumenical Throne), who had participated in many synodal commissions for the settlement of various problems, « with history, canons, and logic as criteria”, the ecumenical patriarch Bartholomew said: « Today also, if he were among us, he would have agreed with us about the current and important topic of solving the