The John Templeton Foundation has awarded the 2025 Templeton Prize to his All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the non secular chief of roughly 300 million Japanese Orthodox Christians all over the world.
Generally known as the Inexperienced Patriarch, Bartholomew was named laureate for his efforts to bridge scientific and non secular understandings of humanity’s relationship with the pure world, which has introduced collectively folks of various faiths to heed a name for stewardship of creation. The prize honors people whose exemplary achievements advance the philanthropic imaginative and prescient of Sir John Templeton to harness the facility of the sciences to discover the deepest questions of the universe and humankind’s place and function inside it.
The prize features a scroll, a medal, and an unrestricted financial award of £1.1 million ($1.5 million). On the presentation on September 24, luminaries in attendance included earlier Templeton Prize laureates Jane Goodall (2021) and Paul Davies (1995), former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, and Greece’s prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
“The disassociation between religion and science should finish. They’re each on the identical web page,” stated Bartholomew throughout his prize deal with. “The way forward for our planet is determined by our capability to carry collectively the precision of scientific technique with the notion of non secular imaginative and prescient, the urgency of prophetic witness with the persistence of contemplative apply.”
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