It was one of more than a hundred hierarchs of the Ecumenical Throne who signed the Indiction, the Proclamation of a New Ecclesial Year, on Tuesday, September 1, 2015 following the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Church of St. George at the Phanar, Constantinople, present day Istanbul. The hierarchs signed in order of seniority, beginning with His All -Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch BARTHOLOMEW of Constantinople and continuing from senior to junior, based on the date of consecration to the Holy Episcopacy.