In that place, in A.D. 325, a united Church laid the doctrinal foundations for believers in every age to follow.

Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world’s Eastern Orthodox Christians, raised the idea of hosting a joint meeting in Nicaea when the two met in ...

During his 12-year pontificate, Francis took important, even historical, ecumenical initiatives. In 2016, he became the first pope ever to meet the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Pope Leo XIV greets Buddhist monks who present him with gifts during a meeting with religious leaders at the Vatican May 19, 2025. The leaders were in Rome for the pope’s inauguration Mass. (CNS ...

Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council on this day in 1962. Pope John XXIII, born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, was the 261st Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, serving from 1958 until ...

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 19 - Pope Leo XIV will visit Nicaea in November, the patriarch of Constantinople said Monday. "This morning I met His Holiness Pope Leo. I saw with great satisfaction that we ...

Pope Francis said on Friday he wanted to visit Turkey next year to celebrate the anniversary of the first council of the Christian Church. "It's a trip that I desire to go on, with all my heart ...

In addition to his ecumenical agenda, the pope’s potential visit to Turkey would offer him yet another chance to further cement ties with Islam, as 99.8 percent of Turkey is Muslim.

ROME — Pope Francis said on Thursday that he hopes to travel to Turkey next year to commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, Christianity’s first ecumenical council.

Speaking in Moscow Feb. 2, Patriarch Kirill stressed that the council, which will only last 12 days, will not be like “ancient ecumenical councils,” and it is “not called to make decisions ...

John XXIII, who was elected Pope in 1958, called an ecumenical council, only the twenty-first in the nearly two-thousand-year history of the Church. Paul VI left the Vatican for trips to Bombay ...