TASS/. The Patriarchate of the Turkish Orthodox Church on Tuesday filed a lawsuit with the Istanbul Prosecutor’s Office to demand a criminal case be opened against the Ecumenical Patriarchate of ...

In late August of 2018, Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, flew from Moscow to Istanbul on an ...

ISTANBUL, November 3. /TASS/. Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople have signed an agreement on creating the Ukrainian church. The ceremony was held on ...

Ongoing talks are suggesting that the Greek Orthodox Halki School could reopen soon, with some indicating as early as 2026.

Orthodox clergy, except for the Patriarch himself, are forbidden to wear clerical garb in public. Last week Istanbul papers bitterly attacked Athenagoras for not condemning the Greek Cypriots.

SOFIA - Nikolai Balashov, a senior Russian Orthodox priest sanctioned by Ukraine and reportedly a former KGB colonel general, was granted entry into Bulgaria following the Patriarch’s invitation and ...