Orthodoxy in Lithuania dates back to the 13th century, Bartholomew said, when it fell under the ultimate supervision of Constantinople. Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church ...

But such pronouncements have had little effect in the past: The Eastern Orthodox Church condemned ethno-phyletism as heresy at the 1872 Council of Constantinople, but only Greek-speaking church ...

EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCHES. There are many parallels between the beliefs ... Eastern Orthodoxy evolved into several independent exarchates and patriarchies, with the patriarch of Constantinople as ...

Estonia is aiming to split its Orthodox Church from the Moscow Patriarchate as the Kremlin uses religion as a tool for soft ...

VILNIUS, March 21 (Reuters) - The leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church said on Tuesday he ... of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (of Constantinople) in Lithuania," Patriarch Bartholomew told ...

Jean-Arnault Dérens, historian and editor-in-chief of Le Courrier des Balkans, has just published Geopolitics of Orthodoxy: ...

One of the most important shifts in history was the spread of Christianity by the Greeks from the Byzantine Empire into ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — This year, Eastern and Western churches will celebrate ... relationship between Moscow and Constantinople, any convening of all Orthodox primates at this stage seems nearly ...

Whereas Pope Francis holds supremacy over the Roman Catholic Church, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople is the first among equals in the Eastern Orthodox Church.