His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

Esteemed President, Fr. John Jenkins,
Venerable hierarchs and clergy,
Distinguished faculty and guests,
Beloved students,

It is a unique privilege to stand before this assembly of university staff and students, as well as visitors from the region and all over the United States, in order to receive the preeminent honorary award of Doctor of Laws of the University of Notre Dame for the initiatives of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in response to the foremost challenge of our time, climate change.

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