The sight was so horrifying that Mehmed II, after seeing the “forest” of the dead, turned around and marched back to Constantinople. Vlad III wrote to Matthias I explaining that he had ...

During the Middle Ages, Eastern Orthodoxy evolved into several independent exarchates and patriarchies, with the patriarch of Constantinople as honorary leader. However, each of the other patriarchies ...

There was the Siege of Constantinople in 717. There was the Philadelphia Election Riot bar brawls of 1742. There was the National Wrestling Alliance Bunkhouse Stampede of 1988. And now ...

Credit: Vatican Media Expressing his particular fraternal affection for the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, and Assyrian ...

Sources noted that the meeting may be scheduled for the end of November, potentially coinciding with the feast day of Andrew the Apostle, the founder of the Church of Constantinople. Such a visit ...

On May 1, 2025, President Donald Trump established the Religious Liberty Commission via executive order, appointing Archbishop Elpidophoros, head of the Archdiocese of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in ...

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ISTANBUL, TURKEY – On this day in 1930, the ancient city of Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s government, a landmark move in Turkey’s drive to assert a unified ...

Speaking ahead of the conclave, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I had said he hoped Francis’ successor would join him on the “pilgrimage” to the site of the first ...

After conquering Constantinople in 1453, the Ottomans began reshaping the city into their imperial capital while expanding further into Europe. This video traces the aftermath of the conquest ...

Further reading: Bartholomew I reaffirms primacy of the Patriarchate of Constantinople “Now we look to Leo XIV with our Christian hope,” he said. “I plan to propose that we advance the ...