Pan-Orthodox Council

Ecumenical Patriarchate Calls on Bulgarian Church to Participate in Pan-Orthodox Council

Published by Novinite on Tue, 06/07/2016 - 15:24

After an extraordinary meeting on Monday, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople called on all autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches, including the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, to participate in the Pan-Orthodox Council which is scheduled to take place in Crete from June 16 to 26.

Orthodox Council moved from Turkey to Greece over Russia crisis

Published by Hurriyet on Tue, 04/19/2016 - 00:01

A historical meeting bringing together representatives of 300 million Orthodox Christians, which had been due to be held in Istanbul this year after centuries away, has been shifted to the Greek island of Crete. The move came after the RussianOrthodox Church indicated that it did not want to come to Turkey due to the crisis between the two countries over the downing of a Russian jet that violat