Constantinople. The City of the World’s Desire. The largest city in Christendom for nearly a thousand years. Surprisingly few remember this grand city, capital of two of history’s greatest ...

Historians have chosen the year of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans, 1453, as a reference point to mark the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Age. The capital of the ...

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 ...

Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and others at the Pontifical Antonianum University in Rome, Italy, on May 30, 2025. (Credit: Religión Digital.) Listen The Order of ...

The Virgin and Child mosaic, 9th century BC, Hagia Sophia. The mosaic is located in the apse semi-dome of Hagia Sophia. In the mosaic, Mary is enthroned, and she puts her right hand on the shoulder of ...

Bartholomew I of Constantinople, the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians, has expressed sorrow over the death of Pope Francis, describing him as a "faithful friend" and "sincere friend of ...

They weren’t just walls - they were a message: “Do NOT enter.” Discover how the Walls of Constantinople held back invaders for centuries, and why their engineering still impresses military ...

I count one last Ecumenical Council that gained the consent of the Patriarchs of East and West, the Fourth of Constantinople, assembled in 859 and 861 (First-and-Second Council), 869-870 (the ...

The lobbying firm run by Liberal Party powerbroker Michael Photios will be expanded with the addition of Labor shareholders as it attempts to become the country’s largest bipartisan government ...

Born on Prinkipo Island near Constantinople (where now is exiled Red Leon Trotsky), Photios II was educated in Athens and Germany.

Patriarch Photios I of Constantinople says that he was baptized along with his son Abibon and Nicodemus by the apostles Peter and John, and the Eastern Orthodox Church venerates him as a saint.” ...