Category: Turkey

Turkey Questions Inclusion of Constantinople Patriarchate in Ukraine Peace Summit Documents

OCP- June 20, 2024

OCP News Service – 20/06/2024 Constantinople – Turkey: Turkey's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Onju Keceli, raised concerns on social media (Twitter) regarding the participation of the ... Read More

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Calls for Peace at Ukraine Peace Summit

OCP- June 20, 2024

OCP News Service – 20/06/2024 Constantinople – Turkey: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians worldwide, played a prominent role at the recent ... Read More

Orthodox Church in America Delegation Visits Constantinople

OCP- June 10, 2024

  OCP News Service – 10/06/2024 Constantinople – Turkey: His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon, primate of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), led a delegation on ... Read More

Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople Condemns Police Action Against Catholicos

OCP- June 1, 2024

OCP News Service – 31/06/2024 Constantinople- Turkey: The Patriarchal See of Istanbul has issued a strong statement condemning the blocking of  His Holiness Catholicos Karekin ... Read More

Historic Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora Reopens as Mosque in Turkey

OCP- May 9, 2024

OCP News Service – 09/05/2024 Constantinople – Turkey: The historic Chora Monastery, renowned for its breathtaking Byzantine mosaics, reopened its doors on May 06,2024, as ... Read More

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Receives Armenian Patriarch Sahak Masalyan

OCP- May 8, 2024

  ec-patr.org OCP News Service – 08/05/2024 Constantinople – Turkey: In a display of Eastertide fellowship, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew warmly received His Holiness Sahak Masalyan, ... Read More

Archimandrite Iakovos Andriopoulos Consecrated as Metropolitan of Mexico

OCP- February 3, 2024

ec-patr.org OCP News Service – 03/02/2024 Constantinople- Turkey: His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I consecrated Archimandrite Iakovos (Jacob) Andriopoulos as Metropolitan of Mexico at the ... Read More

Ecumenical Patriarchate Reaffirms Opposition to the Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage in Greece

OCP- January 25, 2024

OCP News Service – 25/01/2024 Constantinople- Turkey: The Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, meeting under the presidency of His All-Holiness ... Read More

Patriarch Sahag II Mashalian of Constantinople Visited Ecumenical Patriarchate

OCP- December 28, 2023

ec-patr.org OCP News Service – 28/12/2023 Constantinople- Turkey: Patriarch Sahag II Mashalian of Constantinople visited Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople on December 25, 2023, ... Read More

Prime Minister of Montenegro Visits the Ecumenical Patriarchate

OCP- October 29, 2023

ec-patr OCP News Service – 29/10/2023 Constantinople-Turkey: On 27 October 2023, the Prime Minister of Montenegro, Dritan Abazović, paid a visit to the Ecumenical Patriarchate ... Read More