Explore religious figures shaping global events in 2025. From influential leaders to rising voices, this four-part series ...

It passed a decision to stop mentioning the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I at liturgies ... [joint services] with the hierarchs of the Constantinople Church for Russian clerics.

Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople has ... The Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople decided at its meeting held on October 9-11 to proceed with granting ...

This is a great honor, as the government's decision has finally resolved the critical issue of the Clergy in the Greek Diaspora,' said the Minister ...

The worldwide leader of the Orthodox Churches, His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has persistently proclaimed the primacy of spiritual values in determining environmental ethics and ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew paid tribute to the Greek language on Tuesday describing it as the “mother tongue of the spirit.” ...

The documentary The Theological School of Halki Today, directed by Fatih Ozturk and Okan Seker, had its premiere on Thursday, ...

That brings us to 2025, which will see a remarkable coincidence: Both the Eastern and Western will hold Easter on the same ...

Antoine Arjakovsky, historian and ecumenical theologian, described the ongoing reconciliation efforts among Christians of different denominations in Ukraine, united by the violence of Russian ...

Pope Paul VI is the 261st successor of St. Peter as Bishop of Rome; Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople is the 261st successor of St. Andrew, legendary founder of the church there.

The Eastern Orthodox churches are led spiritually by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, who also expressed "disgust" at the attack. But Francis and Kirill made history in 2016 ...

The holy Patriarch Germanus died in the year 740, at age ninety-five, and was buried in the Chora monastery in Constantinople. Afterwards, his relics were transferred to France. At the Seventh ...