Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

The Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate released a statement on Wednesday urging the Russian Orthodox Church and its leader, Patriarch Kirill, to end their support for Russia's war in Ukraine and cease interference in other regions, particularly Africa.

The Ukrainian soldiers arrived in Greece with marks of war - one with a head scar, another with both legs amputated above the knee, some with invisible mental wounds from a three-year conflict that has ravaged their homeland.

The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the spiritual head of the world's Orthodox Christians, held a half-hour meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Christmas Day at the Presidential Palace in Ankara.

The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew invited more than 50 lonely Greeks from Istanbul to celebrate Christmas together with their spiritual father in a family-like atmosphere.

At dawn, as shadows linger over the peninsula of Mount Athos in northern Greece, a long line of pilgrims queues in front of a modest office in Ouranoupoli. Their destination? The ancient monastic community of Mount Athos. Among these pilgrims, Romanians dominate, seeking spiritual solace in place of the now-risky Holy Land.

The American School of Classical Studies in Athens announced that the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople will receive the Gennadius Award for the year 2025, recognizing its enduring contribution to Greek learning and Hellenism.

The award will be presented during the School’s annual gala, to be held on Thursday, May 8, 2025, at Gotham Hall in New York City.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the Eastern Orthodox Christians worldwide, has called for a unified celebration of Easter for all Christians.

A 40-year-old monk was found dead Thursday on a rocky shoreline in the Monoxylitis area of Mount Athos, Greece's all-male Orthodox monastic community. He had been reported missing in late November.

Local police and firefighters assisted in recovering the body, which was then transported to the mainland by private boat.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, based in Istanbul, has once again proposed the idea of celebrating Easter on the same day for both the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.

A grand musical event was organized at the historic Zografeion Lyceum in Istanbul, Turkey, in memory of Apostle Andrew of Asia Minor, the founder of the church of Constantinople, on the occasion of the Thronal Feast Day of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.