Ecumenical Patriarch

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew marked 30 years as the leader of the Greek Orthodoxy by visiting Greece this week where he met with the spiritual and political leadership of the country. Bartholomew’s visit comes after a high-profile visit in the United...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew honored three scientists whose extraordinary efforts led to Covid-19 vaccines at an event in New York on Saturday. Bartholomew, who earlier in the week met President Biden at the White House, presented the Athenagoras Human Rights Award to:...

Prominent Greek-American Michael Psaros announced on Tuesday the establishment of the "Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Endowed Orthodox Chaplaincy" at Georgetown University. The announcement was made at a dinner at Georgetown University held in honor of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew who is on...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will meet with President Biden during his visit to the US, which begins on October 23, according to the official schedule released by the Greek Archdiocese of America on Wednesday. The visit to the US, which will...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew arrived for the fist time on Saturday at the autocephalous Church of Ukraine and participated in festivities celebrating the 30th anniversary of the country's declaration of independence. On Saturday, Patriarch Bartholomew I and the leader of the...

The US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman met with His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew in Istanbul on Saturday.

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America addressed the solemn anniversary of Turkey's abrupt closure of the Greek Orthodox Halki Seminary in 1971, ending the institution's work of educating generations of clergymen. Interviewed by Dwight Bashir of the United States Commission...

In recognizing the Armenia Genocide, US President Joe Biden referred to Constantinople, in a move that raised eye-brows in Greece

The Ecumenical Patriarchate celebrated the Epiphany as it usually does, with a cross thrown into the waters of the Bosphorus.

As part of his whirlwind tour aimed toward promoting religious freedom around the world, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with the papal nuncio to Turkey and toured an Istanbul mosque after meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on...