'fake news, insults and fabricated information of all kinds from propagandists do not discourage the Ecumenical Patriarchate from continuing its ministry and ecumenical mission'

Russian Foreign Intelligence Service accuses venerable Orthodox Church of trying to 'sow discord in the Russian Orthodox world', claims British secret services aiding effort to dislodge Russian Orthodoxy

The patriarchal and synodal Divine Liturgy is led by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, with Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria concelebrating, and in the presence of Pope Leo XIV.

First comments by Turkish leader Erdogan to Trump included the phrase '...we are ready to do whatever we can that falls on our part, and I will when I get back try to discuss this issue with the esteemed Mr. Bartholomos,' referring to the Ecumenical Patriarch

The Patriarchate's Sacred and Holy Synod announced that the Church recognizes Damianos as the 'legal and canonical Archbishop and Hegumen of the Holy Monastery of the Sinai'

The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople called on the Egyptian government and President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi to “find the appropriate manner to maintain the ownership status quo” of Saint Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai, in a statement issued on Friday. The reaction came a day after the uproar caused by an Egyptian court’s ruling on May […]

Founded in the 4th century CE, the Ecumenical Patriarchate has served as the spiritual and administrative center of the Eastern Orthodox Church and a bastion of Greek intellectual and cultural preservation.

Pope Leo XIV will arrive at the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Phanar See in Istanbul after the commemoration of the 1,700-year-old anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea