Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, the hierarchs of the Ecumenical Throne in America, the clergy, and the faithful Orthodox people of the United States will joyfully welcome the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the United States for an official visit in September 2025. The visit follows the announcement of the Templeton Foundation…| Orthodox Times (en)
On July 11, 2025, Anthony J. Limberakis, MD, National Commander of the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and Archon Grand Aktouarios, issued a statement in which he writes that the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate “note with dismay and indignation the attack by Israeli settlers on the Palestinian Christian village…| Orthodox Times (en)
By Efi Efthimiou One of the most widely read articles published by orthodoxtimes.com, titled “What sources from Phanar and Kyiv reveal to Orthodox Times about the situation in Ukraine”, caused considerable stir in both Ukraine and Constantinople. There was significant feedback from Ukraine, overwhelmingly positive, regarding the content of the…| Orthodox Times (en)
On Tuesday, June 3, 2025, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew conferred the Offikion of Archon Quaestor of the Great Church of Christ upon Apostolos Tzitzikostas, Greece's Commissioner to the European Union. In his address, the Ecumenical Patriarch spoke of the history of the Offikion, noting that it was the first time…| Orthodox Times (en)
With all due solemnity and a large turnout of parishioners and friends of the Diplokionion Community in Constantinople, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated on Saturday, 8 March 2025, and a festive event followed, during the annual festival of the Sanctified Spring of the Holy Forty Martyrs. During the Holy Service…| Orthodox Times (en)
"The Ecumenical Patriarchate is constantly praying for an end to the violence and for the establishment of a just peace," stated Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, addressing the ongoing war in Ukraine. His remarks came during his speech on Saturday, March 8, 2025, following the Divine Liturgy at the Church of Saint…| Orthodox Times (en)
On the last day of his visit to Chios, Sunday, September 8, 2024, the Feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided over the Divine Liturgy at the Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Kallimasia. After the Dismissal, he led a memorial…| Orthodox Times (en)
On Sunday, October 20, 2024, the investiture of twenty-eight new Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate will take place following the Divine Liturgy at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New York City. Presided over by Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, the ceremony will serve as the culmination of the…| Orthodox Times (en)
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, on the morning of Wednesday, September 4, 2024, visited the Holy Monastery of the Holy Trinity in Halki and participated in the Divine Liturgy, which was celebrated in the monastery's Catholicon, with Metropolitan Stephanos of Philippi, Neapolis, and Thasos presiding. After the dismissal, the Metropolitan held…| Orthodox Times (en)
On Wednesday afternoon, September 4, a bullet struck the chapel of the Exarchate of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Vilnius, Lithuania. Priests at the chapel, located at 4 Bokšto Street in Vilnius, discovered that a window had been broken and a bullet was lodged in the window sill. The priests immediately…| Orthodox Times (en)
At the invitation and under the chairmanship of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the 10th Assembly of the Venerable Hierarchy of the Ecumenical Throne, with the participation of the Hierarchs of the Autonomous Churches of Finland and Estonia under his canonical protection, was convened in Constantinople from September 1 to 3. The…| Orthodox Times (en)