TASS/. Claims by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I for the powers to make unilateral decisions, which should embrace of the entire Eastern Orthodox Church in violation of the age-old ...

The Feast of the Holy Epiphany was celebrated with great "pomp and splendor" at the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul on ...

The Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople ... The institute of exarchate in the world of Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church of the Eastern signifies a special administrative ...

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America has received today the text of an important announcement from the Ecumenical Patriarchate about the Holy and Great Synod of the Orthodox Church, which is ...

Cyril Lucaris (1572-1638) was the Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Alexandria ... and thus looked to the Polish ...

and where the faith of the Orthodox "strengthened the oecumene." His All Holiness Bartholomew also referred to the visits of the former Popes Paul VI and John Paul II, as well as the return, two years ...

One of the most important shifts in history was the spread of Christianity by the Greeks from the Byzantine Empire into Eastern Europe.

The Russian Orthodox Church announced it is breaking ties with the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate over its decision to grant independence to the Ukrainian church, which Moscow does not ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, center, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, throws a wooden crucifix ...

Istanbul remained the centre of the Orthodox Church after ... it has tried to bring about peace in eastern Ukraine. Earlier this year, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople overruled ...

LEADERS of the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Churches are signalling their openness to setting a common date for Easter — an opportunity arising with the approaching 1700th anniversary of ...

The visit aims to strengthen ties between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches, with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I expected to join the commemoration. This significant event ...