Pope Leo XIV welcomed a delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarchate, emphasizing the shared commitment to the journey toward ...

As Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I is "primus inter pares" (first among equals) among the patriarchs of the Eastern Orthodox Church and is its spiritual leader. Bartholomew, who ...

At a synod in Belarus on Monday, Russian Orthodox Church leaders said the church was cutting ties with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the seat of the global spiritual leader for ...

I am here because, for the first time in world history, I was elected as a presidential candidate with 15.5 million votes in ...

(RNS) — The current ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, has balanced the growing power of Moscow, but the question of a successor has become pressing.

Successive attacks from the Latins, Serbs, Bulgarians and Ottoman Turks, as well as mass fatalities from the Black Death, had weakened the Byzantine Empire and the population within Constantinople ...

October 28, 1913: Showdown in Constantinople: The Liman Von Sanders Affair. On October 28, 1913, Lieutenant General Otto Karl Victor Liman von Sanders (top) ...

As Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I is "primus inter pares" (first among equals) among the patriarchs of the Eastern Orthodox Church and is its spiritual leader.