The secretary of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem said they won’t be able to attend church services if the Patriarchate of Jerusalem supports the stance of Constantinople TEL AVIV ...

The Moscow Patriarchate’s counter-moves will follow soon, the Holy Synod ... of Constantinople made public on September 7, 2018, which said that two bishops of that Church, Archbishop Daniel ...

In 1453, the Ottomans seized Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and the life of its last emperor, Constantine ...

The Russian Orthodox Church on Monday angrily broke all ties with the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, the worldwide leadership of Orthodox Christianity, in response to a decision ...

told journalists that the decision to break relations with the Constantinople Patriarchate was taken by The Holy Synod, the governing body of the Russian Orthodox Church, in Minsk, Belarus on Monday.

In the West, he is numbered among the 33 “Doctors of the Church,” and remembered especially for his extensive and profound teachings on the subject of the Holy Eucharist. Along with St. Joseph ...

The Holy Synod was called by Moscow Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, after the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who is considered the leader of the ...