Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

The Church of Greece an the Ecumenical Patriarchate are fully in line on the need for clerics to remain in the state payroll and on the constitutional revisions planned by the government, the two bodies said in a joint statement on Tuesday, after a meeting in Athens between Archbishop Ieronymos and a delegation of the Patriarchate.

Egemen Bagis, Turkey's former chief negotiator in the country's EU accession talks and close aide to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, says he does not rule out the reopening of the Halki Theological School near Istanbul.

The United States' Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback has expressed Washington's support for the reopening of the Halki Theological School, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency said on Friday.

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios, the spiritual leader of the world's Greek Orthodox Christians, will be attending an official dinner hosted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Tuesday for Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

The newly elected head of the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church has officially assumed office in the capital of Kiev, a month after the church severed its centuries-long ties with the Russian Orthodox Church.

The autonomy status granted to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by Istanbul's Fener Greek Orthodox Church has caused a dispute between Fener and Moscow Orthodox Patriarchate.

The Order of Saint Andrew, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, will host a nationwide call-in virtual town meeting on the issue of the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the responsibilities of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, on Saturday January 26.

The Holy Community of Mount Athos, which represents a cluster of historic monasteries and one of Orthodoxy's holiest sites in Halkidiki, northern Greece, has called on the left-led government to hold a referendum on the contentious name deal.

A delegation representing the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate will arrive in Athens this week to meet with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Greek Archbishop Ieronymos to discuss the government's proposed changes to church-state relations.

A delegation representing the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate will arrive in Athens this week to meet with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Greek Archbishop Ieronymos to discuss the government's proposed changes to church-state relations.