Anthony J. Limberakis

Anthony J. Limberakis, MD, serves as the National Commander of the Order of St. Andrew, an organization comprised of the leading Orthodox churchmen in the United States whose mission is to defend and support the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the spiritual center of the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians located in Istanbul, Turkey, a country designated by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom as a “Tier 2” religious freedom violator (“governments that engage in or tolerate violations that are serious…”).

Under the leadership of Dr. Limberakis the Order of Saint Andrew has initiated an assertive, multifaceted religious freedom project enlisting the assistance of the federal government of the United States, the state legislative bodies of each of the 50 states of the United States, the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to convey the urgent message to the Turkish government to cease and desist the policies that constrict religious freedom, not only for Orthodox Christians, but for all religious minorities including the Jewish, Roman Catholic, Protestant and Alevi Muslim communities of Turkey.

Dr. Limberakis is a leading radiologist in Philadelphia, graduate of Duke University School of Medicine and holds undergraduate and master’s degrees (political science) from the University of Pennsylvania. Married to Dr. Maria A. Limberakis, a family physician, they have three children and two grandsons.