Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I led a liturgy in Istanbul on Sunday, marking the 1,700th anniversary of Christianity's first ecumenical council. The first Council of Nicaea (located in modern ...

Nicaea: The First Attempt at Unity The First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea was convened in 325 AD by Emperor Constantine the Great in the city of Nicaea—modern-day İznik, Turkey.

Pope Francis greatly improved relations with the Oriental Orthodox Church, adding the 21 Coptic Orthodox martyrs, who were murdered by ISIS in Libya in 2015, to the Roman Martyrology.

Preaching on Thursday evening, the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew said that he hoped that Leo XIV would join in current 1700th anniversary celebrations of the Council of Nicaea and ...

Pope Francis was also fond of founding new “days” for the Church to celebrate – among them, Sunday of the Word of God (Third Sunday in Ordinary Time on the Roman Calendar); World Day of Prayer for the ...

Describing Pope Francis as ‘’one of the most radiant voices in Christian leadership,’’ Baselios Mar Thoma Mathews III, Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan, has offered his ...

Along with those from Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, and Eritrean churches, young priests and monks from the Malankara Church participated in the meeting. "The Malankara Orthodox Church remembers ...

In the context of the anniversary of Nicaea, one could also mention some of the Syriac clergy who were amongst the attendees of the Council of Nicaea such as Mor Eustathius (324--330) bishop of ...

In this context, for Cardinal Aveline, “the purpose of the church is to serve the loving relationship of God to the world.” Despite its “weaknesses and burdens and despite its stains and wrinkles, the ...

For centuries, churches have used different methods to calculate the date of Easter. Rarely do they coincide. The search for a common date has also been one of the main issues of the First Ecumenical ...

In Egypt, the Coptic Orthodox Church will host the Sixth World Conference on NICAEA organized by the World Council of Churches. " (This) is more than a gathering of church leaders; it's a chance ...

“ (This) is more than a gathering of church leaders; it’s a chance for Africa to reshape its spiritual and social future,” said the Rev. Jackie Makena, a Methodist theologian and adjunct ...