The break came after the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople recognised the independence of the Ukrainian Church from Moscow. The row is being described as the greatest Orthodox split since ...

MOSCOW, November 30. /TASS/. The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has been deliberately delaying the process of granting autocephaly to Ukraine because it has so far failed to win the ...

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Archbishop Makarios of Australia arrived in Cuba on Wednesday, to represent the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Mother Church ...

The establishment of the Romanian Patriarchate was recognized internationally, especially through the Tomos of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the official recognition of the Romanian ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), met the leader of the ...

This was the custom in Constantinople until its fall in 1453 and in Russia until the reign of Peter I. September 1 is still festively celebrated as the New Year at the Patriarchate of Constantinople; ...

Cyril Lucaris (1572-1638) was the Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Alexandria (from 1601-1620) and then ...

The fall of the regime in Damascus has also led to a backlash against the Orthodox patriarchate heir to one of the most ...