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

One of the council's lasting legacies is the Nicene Creed, a profession of faith still recited by Christians of all big ...

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

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 ...

On Sunday, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I presided over a liturgy in Istanbul to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the ...

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

Orthodox Church sources said they would ... three ecumenical councils of Nicaea (325), Constantinople (381), and Ephesus (431) whereas the Eastern Orthodox Churches recognise seven ecumenical ...

At the headquarters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, Orthodox clergy and faithful welcomed the May 8 election of Pope Leo XIV, hoping he would build on the ecumenical progress made by his ...

Constantinople fell, and Emperor Constantine XI’s sacrifice marked the end of an era and a legacy of faith and defiance.

By celebrating together this Nicene faith and by proclaiming it together, we will also advance towards the restoration of ...

The Great Church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople was the cornerstone ... hierarchs autonomously—as in the autocephalous Orthodox Churches. Eastern Catholics, too, are self-governing, under ...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of Ut unum sint, Pope St John Paul II’s landmark encyclical on ecumenism, signed on May ...