Bartholomew

The Metropolitan of Adrianoupolis Amphilochios will visit on Sunday the two Greek soldiers who have been detained in Turkey since March, after accidentally crossing into the neighboring country during a border patrol, the Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios I said on Saturday, after delivering his message for Orthodox Easter.

Fener GreekOrthodox Patriarch Bartholomew conducted a religious ceremony in the northwestern Turkish resort town of Erdek on Aug. 23, with the participation of locals and some 250 visitors from the Greek island of Chios. 

Turkey's leading mobile phone operator Turkcell has renovated the technological infrastructure of a Greek high school on Turkey's northwestern island of Gökçeada and held an opening ceremony for it on May 17. 

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

These days, it is very difficult to defend the use of terms such as "historical," "historic" or "symbolic" without running the risk of being blamed for premature optimism or exaggeration. 

The olive and myrtle tree saplings planted by Fener Greek Patriarch Bartholomew and ?zmir Mayor Aziz Kocao?lu have become tourist attractions. 

Bartholomew and Kocao?lu planted the trees at the garden of the Greek Orthodox Church of Agios Voukolos in ?zmir on Feb. 6.