Patriarch Bartholomew celebrated his namesday in Constantinople
On the occasion of Patriarch Bartholomew’s namesday, Great Vespers was served on June 10 at the Monastery of the Life-Giving Spring in Balikli. The...
Patriarch Bartholomew
Patriarch Bartholomew wishes “peace and love will soon return in mutual relationships” with...
On Sunday, July 21, took place the episcopal consecration Bishop Ambrosios of Evdokia in Saint Alypius church, in Antalya, where the Slavic-speakin...
The Volos Academy for Theological Studies will train theologians of the new Orthodox Church of Uk...
On July 14, Patriarch Bartholomew presided the Sunday Divine Liturgy celebrated in St. George’s Patriarchal Church, at the Phanar. Faithful were pr...
On July 14, Patriarch Bartholomew presided the Sunday Divine Liturgy celebrated in St. George’s Patriarchal Church, at the Phanar. Faithful were pr...
Metropolitan Tikhon (OCA), guest of Patriarch Bartholomew in Cappadocia
On June 23, 2019, the Sunday of all Saints, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople concelebrated the Divine Liturgy with Metropolitan Tikhon, the ...
On June 23, 2019, the Sunday of all Saints, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople concelebrated the Divine Liturgy with Metropolitan Tikhon, the ...
Comments by the Secretariat of the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission, on the letter sen...
On March 9, 2019, the Patriarchate of Constantinople published on their official website, a letter sent by His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Co...
On March 9, 2019, the Patriarchate of Constantinople published on their official website, a letter sent by His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Co...
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s visit to Athens
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew went to the Archdiocese of Athens on May 22, where he was warmly welcomed by Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens.
Speech on the occasion of the appointment of Archbishop Elpidophoros as the new Archbishop of Ame...
On May 11, 2019, on the occasion of the appointment of Archbishop Elpidophoros as the new Archbishop of America (Ecumenical Patriarchate), Patriarc...
Patriarch Bartholomew celebrated the Divine Liturgy in Ephesus
On May 8, 2019, the day of the memory of St. John the Theologian, Patriarch Bartholomew presided a solemn Divine Liturgy in the Basilica dedicated ...
Resignation of Archbishop Demetrios of America (Ecumenical Patriarchate)
On May 4, the Secretariat of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate issued the following communiqué on their Facebook page:
Patriarch Bartholomew’s visit to Warsaw
On the occasion of Patriarch Bartholomew’s visit to Warsaw, the Chancellery of the Polish Orthodox Church issued the following communiqué:
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew participated in the “March of the living” in Auschwitz
Patriarch Bartholomew is in Poland this week for an official visit, during which he participated in the "March of the Living" at the Auschwitz conc...
Patriarch Bartholomew’s message for Holy Pascha 2019
PATRIARCHAL ENCYCLICALFOR HOLY PASCHA Prot. No. 257 ✠ B A R T H O L O M E WBy God’s MercyArchbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patri...
Moscow Patriarch’s interview with the Greek newspaper “Ethnos tis Kyriakis”
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, "In Greece, I have each time the feeling that I have not come to foreigners, but to my brothers".
Archbishop Ieronymos officially invited the Ecumenical Patriarch to Athens
Patriarch Bartholomew will visit Athens on May 23, at the invitation of the Primate of the Orthodox Church of Greece
Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople honored the memory of his predecessor Patriarch Gregory V
On the morning of Wednesday, April 10, 2019, as every year, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew lit a candle and put spring flowers in front of th...
The patriarch of Constantinople went to Adrianopolis (Edirne) for the Akathist service
On Friday, April 5, Patriarch Bartholomew celebrated the 4th stanza of the Akathist Hymn to the Mother of God, in Saints Constantine and Helen chur...
April Session of the Orthodox Church of Greece Permanent Holy Synod
Communiqué of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece following its April 3rd meeting.
A delegation of the Western Europe Archdiocese was received by Patriarch Bartholomew
A "constructive exchange" between the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the delegation of the Archdiocese of Russian Orthodox Churches in Wester...
Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana’s 2nd Reply to Patriarch Bartholomew
Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana’s 2nd Reply to Patriarch Bartholomew concerning Ukraine
Patriarch’s Letter in Response to the Letter of the Archbishop of Albania
The Ecumenical Patriarch's Letter in Response to the Letter of the Archbishop of Albania (01/14/2019)
The ambassador of North Macedonia in Ankara met with Patriarch Bartholomew
On March 27 at the Phanar, Patriarch Bartholomew received the ambassador of North Macedonia in Turkey, in the presence of Metropolitan Emmanuel of ...
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Metropolitan Epifaniy may go to Mount Athos after Pascha
After Pascha, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew may go to Mount Athos with Metropolitan Epifaniy, the primate of the new autocephalous Ukrainian...
Patriarch Bartholomew’s answer to Archbishop Anastasios regarding Ukraine
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Archbishop Anastasios of Albania calls for a pan-Orthodox Council to resolve the crisis in Ukraine
In a letter sent on January 14 to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana and all Albania called for a pan-Orthodox Counc...
Request to celebrate the Divine Liturgy in Macedonian
In a letter sent to Patriarch Bartholomew, the Slav-speaking “RAINBOW” party asked for his permission to celebrate the Divine Liturgy in Macedonian...
Patriarch Bartholomew refuses to convene a synaxis of Orthodox primates about Ukraine
In a letter to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople dated December 31, 2018, Patriarch John X of Antioch asked him to convene a synaxis of Ortho...
Position of the Serbian Orthodox Church on the Ukrainian question
The following letter was addressed by Patriarch Irinej of Serbia (on the left on the picture, with Patriarch Bartholomew) to Patriarch Bartholomew ...
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will visit the United States next July
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will visit the United States next July. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo invited him to speak at a meeting on enviro...
“The Patriarchate does not act under political pressure”
In an interview published in the February 27 Sunday edition of the Greek daily To Vima, Metropolitan Emmanuel of France responded to accusations ma...
Changes coming in dioceses dependent on Constantinople
Rumors have just been confirmed by Patriarch Bartholomew himself, who mentioned upcoming changes in the leadership of the Greek Orthodox Churches i...
“The Patriarch of Constantinople has lost his declared primacy in world Orthodoxy”
Interviewed in a TV program, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church Department for External Church Relat...
“Awareness, Action and Impact: A Forum on Modern Slavery”
The Third International Forum on Modern Slavery organized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate with the theme “Awareness, Action and Impact” took place i...
PATRIARCHAL AND SYNODAL TOMOS FOR THE BESTOWAL OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL STATUS OF AUTOCEPHALY TO THE...
Bartholomew, by God’s mercy Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch: “You have come to Mount Zion . . . and to the Church of...
Message of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople on Ukraine
His Holiness Bartholomew, Patriarch оf Constantinople Your Holiness, It was with the feeling of great pain, astonishment and indignation that I rea...
Patriarch Bartholomew’s letter to the hierarchs of the Ecumenical Throne on Ukraine
Please find here our English translation of the letter Patriarch Bartholomew sent on January 8, 2019, to the hierarchs of the Ecumenical Throne abo...
Program of the Ceremony for the granting of the Ukrainian Autocephaly, to be held at the Phanar o...
“We are pleased to announce that His Beatitude Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine will be arriving in Constantinople on the mornin...
Patriarch Bartholomew responded to accusations of corruption
For the first time, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople publicly responded to accusations claiming he received a bribe from the President of Uk...
“The Patriarch of Constantinople’s thirst for power is catastrophic for the future of...
In the homily Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro delivered at St. Nicholas Church in Bandići, he recalled the words of the Apostle Paul, in the ...
“Breaking the Eucharistic Communion is Unacceptable”
On December 13 in Constantinople, Patriarch Bartholomew celebrated the holy apostle Andrew’s feast day (old calendar) at the metochion of the Vatop...
“It may not be too late for Constantinople to give up the idea of a ‘Unification Coun...
On the eve of the “Unification Council” in Ukraine, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk published the following reflections:...
