Patriarch Bartholomew

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, in  a statement, said that cohabitation between gays is sinful and will never be accepted by the Church. While in Estonia, he said that for the Church "the cohabitation between two people of the same sex is...

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew had a meeting with the President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves. His All-Holiness is paying an official visit to Estonia where he also met with the President of the Parliament Ene Ergma, as well...

The rehabilitation study for the Theological School of Halki prepared by the Faculty of Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, was presented on May 30 by the faculty’s working group before the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate...

The Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Christians, Bartholomew, characterized Elder Paisios and Elder Porfyrios as outstanding figures of the Orthodoxy at a speech he gave on May 15. The Patriarch visited Milan in Italy in order to participate in the...

The Ecumenical Patriarch of the Orthodox Christians Bartholomew I, is included on the list of the world’s 500 most influential figures, according to Foreign Policy American magazine, widely known for diplomacy and international relations issues. This year, in its 200th...

Patriarch Bartholomew will spend the Holy Week at his birthplace, Imbros, which is the largest island of Turkey and constitutes a district of Çanakkale Province. It is located in the Aegean Sea, at the entrance of Saros Bay and...

On April 19, His Eminence, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew officiated the service of the Salutations to the Theotokos at the church of Panaghia Koumariotissa at Nihori on the Bosphorus, in Istanbul. He spoke of the contribution and the history of...

For the first time since the schism of 1054, Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, will attend the inauguration of new Pope Francis, the Vatican radio reported. The spiritual leaders of the world's Orthodox Christians will attend Pope Francis’s inaugural...

Leading Orthodox members from various countries will meet in Istanbul on March 3 and 4 for a conference entitled The Social Dimension of Monotheistic Religion. Organized by The Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IAO), established upon the initiative of the...

According to the Turkish newspaper Milliyet, Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew said that Greece's crushing economic crisis has made life so desperate that many people are moving to Turkey. The newspaper said that the Patriarch noted that Greeks who left the...