Phanar

Now is the time of personal and social responsibility, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew says

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew addressed a pastoral message on Wednesday “as a result of the global threat posed by the pandemic of the new coronavirus”, in which he stressed that “now is the time of personal and social responsibility”, a real opportunity to change for the better, in the direction of love and solidarity. His Holiness…

Mar 19, 2020Gheorghe Anghel

Archbishop Leo of Finland meets with Ecumenical Patriarch at Phanar

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew met today, Tuesday, August 13, at the Phanar, with Archbishop Leo of Helsinki and all Finland, who is the head of the Orthodox Autonomous Church of Finland, and the Lutheran Archbishop of Finland Tapio Luoma. They are both on a pilgrimage to the Ecumenical Patriarchate and Constantinople, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America…

Aug 16, 2019Gheorghe Anghel

Ordination of Metropolitan Myron of New Zealand at the Phanar

The Very Rev. Archimandrite Myron Ktistakes was ordained Wednesday, July 11, 2018, to the Episcopate during the Divine Liturgy celebrated by His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at St George Church at the Phanar. Concelebrants for the Divine Liturgy included Archbishop of Crete Eirinaios of Crete, Metropolitan Joseph of Proikonissos, Metropolitan Kyrillos of Rhodes, Metropolitan Amphilochios…

Jul 13, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu

In pictures: Ecumenical Patriarchate celebrates 1175th Sunday of Orthodoxy

His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Sunday presided over the Divine Liturgy celebrated at the St George Patriarchal Cathedral at the Phanar in Constantinople, the city where Orthodox hierarchs gathered in a Holy Synod and restored holy icons for the use in services and private devotional life of Christians after a century-long ecclesiastical differences. Bishop Adrian…

Feb 27, 2018Aurelian Iftimiu