In a gesture of unity, Orthodox priests have been encouraged to shave their beards, as a symbolic act of brotherhood with ...

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church responded by saying that Constantinople’s actions were a crude violation of church canons and stopped mentioning Patriarch Bartholomew during church ...

TASS/ The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew ... the so-called Orthodox Church of Ukraine (PCU), the Tomos of Autocephaly, TASS correspondent reports from the Cathedral of St. George in Istanbul ...

On January 2, an Orthodox church in ... Thus, at the end of 2018, Bartholomew revoked the act of 1686 transferring the Kyiv Metropolis to the Russian Church. He reinstated Filaret in his ...

Bartholomew, who has consistently shown support for Ukraine since the war began, recognized the Orthodox Church of Ukraine as independent from Moscow in 2019 — a move that prompted Russian ...

Christians around the world will celebrate on the same day this year, a relative rarity. Pope Francis would like to make it ...

In 2018, the Russian Orthodox Church severed ties to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople after Patriarch Bartholomew confirmed his intention to recognize the independence of the Orthodox ...

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a conversation with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Wednesday ... a law banning the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in Ukraine.