Update:Patriarch Bartholomew Discharged From Hospital

On 30 December 2021,His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was discharged from the American Hospital in Istanbul,Turkey.He had spent a six-day quarantine there following a positive test for COVID-19,having suffered mild symptoms.He will complete his isolation at the patriarchal residence,Therapeia,before presiding at Epiphany services in the Patriarchal Church of St.George at the patriarchal compound in Constantinople,the Phanar. Before he left the private hospital,which was founded by a US Navy officer in 1920,the patriarch receievd his third call from the Turkish Health Minister,Mr.Farhettin Koca,who inquired how the leader of Eastern Orthodoxy was doing,and offered the services of the Ministry of Health to him whenever needed.