The Ecumenical Patriarch on Tuesday sent a congratulatory letter US president-elect Joe Biden, with his All-Holiness noting:
“…The joy and enthusiasm for your electoral victory are merely personal sentiments. They are also shared by our Ecumenical Patriarchate and its eparchies across the world, and above all by the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America with its commendable Shepherd, Archbishop Elpidophoros …But beyond our Patriarchate, there are millions of Americans, as well as citizens of the entire free world, to whom you now offer hope, I could say conviction, for a better future, where the eternal values and ideals of a civilized humanity may prevail.”