Saint Athanasius III Patelarios, Patriarch of Constantinople, Wonderworker of Lubensk, in the world Alexis, was born in 1560 on the island of Crete, into the pious Greek family Patelarios. Despite his ...

The current Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew ... Some, like the Patriarchate of Moscow, are in schism with Constantinople. Bartholomew is not the “pope” of Orthodoxy—although he would ...

Metropolitan Hilarion said the Kiev metropolia incorporated into the Moscow Patriarchate back then did not coincide with the current territory ... Patriarchate of Constantinople to annul the ...

Ukraine’s current leadership has sought to ... Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko sent a letter to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople requesting autocephaly for the Ukrainian church.

Cyril Lucaris (1572-1638) was the Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Alexandria (from 1601-1620) and then ...