We also reiterate from this position the thanks of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the personal thanks of our Humble Selves, to His Excellency the President of the United States of America who desired to send an official delegation of the White House to our Enthronement.

Now, with all our love and affection, we address our flock here with which at this moment we draw up a testament in the Lord. Unhesitatingly, we state that we shall be a shepherd, ready to sacrifice his soul for his sheep.

But we also make the same promise to the entire pleroma of the Holy and Great Church of Christ, in Crete and the Dodecanese, in Epirus and Macedonia, in Thrace and the Islands, in the so-called New Regions which lives aggregately, in North and South America, in Australia and Europe, that we shall be vigilant in all things and in no way shall we be paternally negligent in serving them from here.

Therefore, to Their Eminences, the archbishops and metropolitans and Their Graces, the bishops who have been entrusted directly with the shepherding of this most beloved worldwide pleroma of the Mother Church, we extend our embrace of love and peace in Christ and the assurance of our close and fraternal collaboration with them, both for the good of the flock, but also in the broader sacred interest of the Throne. We shall convoke gathering of the entire venerable hierarchy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in this See as often as possible, for the mutual exchange of information, support and common projection.