MOSCOW, December 21. /TASS/. Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople has actually encouraged the persecution of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church by agreeing to create a new church there ...

ISTANBUL, November 3. /TASS/. Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople have signed an agreement on creating the Ukrainian church. The ceremony was held on ...

Patriarch Kirill (l) recently met the Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew, (r) and other Orthodox priests in Istanbul The Russian Orthodox Church has effectively cut diplomatic relations with ...

Speaking after the divine liturgy on St Nicholas’s Day in Istanbul last week, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople said that Catholic and Orthodox believers had a “golden opportunity” to agree on a ...

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Kirill was on his way to meet Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the archbishop of Constantinople and the most senior figure ...

The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew invited more than 50 lonely Greeks from Istanbul to celebrate Christmas together with ...

That new reality will be formalized once the “first among equals” in world Orthodoxy, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, grants the OCU what is known as the “tomos of ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew - the head of the global ... after the Muslim Ottoman Turks occupied the city, then known as Constantinople, in the 15th Century. The event at St George's ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew urged Erdogan to help protect the Christians of Syria during their meeting in Ankara.

Special attention was paid to bilateral relations between the UGCC and the Patriarchate of Constantinople ... meeting of Pope ...