Patriarch of Constantinople marks 1,700 years since Christianity's first ecumenical council. Story by Andreas Rogal • 2d. E cumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I led a liturgy in Istanbul on Sunday, ...

President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 8 joined Bartholomew I, the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, for a memorial service in Istanbul in honor of Ukrainians slain as a result of Russia's war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, a representative of the Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop of Constantinople; Metropolitan Emmanuel is ...

KIEV, May 26. /TASS/. Head of the schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine Epiphanius (Dumenko) on Thursday said the church had asked Constantinople Patriarch Bartholomew, who bears the title of ...

Rome Newsroom, Nov 30, 2023 / 11:13 am. On the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, Pope Francis sent a message to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople expressing his “fraternal ...

(RNS) — In September Patriarch Bartholomew I, the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, will travel from Istanbul to the United States to collect his Templeton Prize.In his 34 years on the ...

Patriarch Mashalian noted that Armenia had made a protocol error, and that PM Pashinyan’s request to visit the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople was not conveyed in writing. He said that it was ...

ROME – In a new interview with a German newspaper, the Vatican’s point man on ecumenical affairs says Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill’s defense of the war in Ukraine amounts to “heresy ...

The title “Patriarch of the West” was adopted in the year 642 by Pope Theodore and was used for centuries, though it was not until 1863, during the pontificate of Pope Pius IX, that the title ...