Pope Leo XIV met on Friday at the Vatican with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians.

Istanbul (AsiaNews) - Europe has its roots in Christian doctrine and in Greek thought. This has been highlighted by ecumenical patriarch Bartholomew, taking the opportunity presented by the feasts ...

The interior of the Basilica of St. Bartholomew on the Island. At the very end of the isle the Icon for the “new martyrs” is visible. (Credit: Claire Giangravè.) Listen ROME – On Saturday ...

His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Phanar (Istanbul, Türkiye) on 25 October. Source: press service of the ...

the obvious choice to succeed Bartholomew is Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, the current hierarch of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in America. He has also drawn fire from Turkish nationalists ...

Anthony Albanese has met with the head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Sydney in an event he described as historic. Mr Albanese and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Saturday met with ...

Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America said earlier on Twitter that Bartholomew was feeling well after being discharged from the hospital and was ready to continue ...

On an island in Rome's Tiber River, there is a basilica devoted to the Christian martyrs of the 20th century, the bloodiest century in the history of the Catholic Church. Flanked on either side by ...

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