Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople on Wednesday offered a hopeful historical assessment of the traditional 1054 date for the “Great Schism” between Rome and Constantinople ...

ISTANBUL, January 6. /TASS/ The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople presented the head of the new Ukrainian structure, the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine (PCU), the Tomos of ...

The decision of the Ecumenical Patriarchate on lifting the anathema against two extracanonical Ukrainian churches is unlawful, a spokesman says Moscow patriarch comments on decision to lift ...

Greeks are returning in record numbers to the island of Imbros in today's Turkey 60 years after they were forced to emigrate.

For Russia, Georgia remains the most problematic country in the Transcaucasus, with which there are not even diplomatic ...

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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who is considered the “first among equals” in Eastern Orthodoxy, said any future peace agreement “must include Ukraine as an equal ...

Using Emperor Constantine’s famous vision of the cross, Archbishop Elpidophoros presented Trump with a holy cross, calling it ...