and on understanding the Holy Spirit in the canon. The year prior to the Schism, Greek churches in southern Italy were receiving commands by the Papacy in Rome to conform to Latin rites or be forced to close down. In July 1054, the Patriarch of Constantinople and the Pope mutually excommun...
The leader of the Greek Orthodox Church is the Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, who is the 260th Archbishop of Constantinople. He is not... Learn more about this topic: Eastern Orthodox vs. Roman Catholic | History & Differences ...
Politicians have very blatantly interfered in Church life. In this case, the Patriarchate of Constantinople is a tool in a great political game the goal of which is to prevent peace in Ukraine. The people discussing the tomos and autocephaly and calling themselves experts are peoplewho don’t...
by Fr Georgios Lekkas, a priest in the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s Belgium diocese. It’s well-written and erudite. Unfortunately, it proceeds from some faulty premises, which ultimately invalidate, or at the very least, call into question, its arguments. I will critique the most […]...
Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; VanRensselaer family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians). Schuyler counties in Ill., Mo. and N.Y. are named for him. The village of Schuylerville, New York, is named for him. See also congressi...
Thus, this was the place where the relics of Saint Paraskevi, brought from Constantinople, rested on their way to Iai (June 1641, in the presence of the voivode and hierarchs of Moldavia); this was also the place where the great patriarch of Antiochia, Macarie the...
Bishop Savas was elected to the office of Metropolitan of Pittsburgh on November 2, 2011, by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople, and was enthroned December 8, 2011 at Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Pittsburgh. Age: 67 Birthplace: Gary, Indiana...
Possibly a native of Syria, St Michael was sent by St Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople to be the first Metropolitan (head-Bishop) of Kiev, after that nation’s ruler, Prince Vladimir, accepted baptism. Saint Michael spent the rest of his days tirelessly traveling the Kievan lands preaching...
In this context, the Patriarch of Constantinople has a precedence of honor that is related to his administrative function. This is not, +Maximos insists, a supremacy in all aspects of ecclesiastical life (the way he would define “neo-Papism”), but an authority in the context of the dual...