DURING his visit to the UK this week, the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew of Constantinople, spoke of the timelessness of ...

The visit comes as part of the traditional exchange of delegations for the respective feasts of the Patron Saints: 29 June in ...

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 ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew contacted the Patriarch of Antioch by telephone and expressed the condolences of the ...

Before it, in 1822 the Ecumenical Patriarch Gregorius V was hanged on the orders of Sultan Mahmoud II, who accused him of conspiring with the Greeks in a revolt against the Ottoman Empire.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople attends an interfaith meeting at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome Oct. 7, 2021. The Vatican newspaper has published an article by the ...

GOKCEADA, Turkey (AP) — The ecumenical patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church, based in Istanbul, fulfilled a 10-year promise to mark Easter on the Turkish island of Gokceada where he was born.

In 2014 Francis, during an apostolic visit to the Holy Land, met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the historic meeting between Pope Paul VI and ...

Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte leads Palm Sunday liturgy at Alexander Newsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria, on April 12, 2020. Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria, who was the first elected head of the ...