Posts tagged with "Bartholomew"
Ecumenical Patriarchate calls “historic” the visit of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the Fanar
November 17th, 202001613 Constantinople.- (GreekNewsOnline, AFP) US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo paid a fraught visit to Istanbul on Tuesday that included no official meetings and an agenda focused on religious freedoms that Ankara dismissed as "irrelevant". The meeting of the U.S. Secretary of State with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew lasted 1,5...
Elpidophoros considers "blessing" the suspension by the Patriarchate of the Charter of the Archdiocese
October 10th, 202045105 New York.- By Apostolos Zoupaniotis In a surprising move less than a month after the 45th Clergy Laity Congress, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate decided at the last day of its meeting, on Thursday, to suspend the Charter of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, reprimand with suspension until Christmas Metropolitan...
Conversion of Hagia Sophia is guided by a mentality of the conqueror, says Archbishop Elpidophoros to BBC
July 13th, 202011206 Julian Marshall: When Hagia Sophia was originally built in the 6th Century, during the Byzantine Empire, it served as the seat of the Greek Orthodox Church. And when Turkey was considering converting it back from a museum into a mosque, the Greek Orthodox Synod said such a change would provoke strong protest and frustration among...
It’s time Greek Americans to show the way and boycott traveling to Turkey
July 11th, 202022694 New York.- (GreekNewsOnline) Few hours after Turkey’s top court ruling that declared illegal the 1934 decision by the country’s founder Kemal Ataturk to convert Hagia Sopia to museum, President Tayyip Erdogan declared the old glory of Byzantium a mosque on Friday with the first Muslim prayers to begin in two...
Father Alex Karloutsos Unites the Hierarchy of Our Church in America
July 8th, 202063160 New York.- By Apostolos Zoupaniotis Those who had concerns about differences of opinions between Archbishop Elpidophoros and members of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, must be reassured that our Hierarchy stands united, thanks to Rev. Alex Karloutsos. The strongman of the Greek Orthodox...
Ecumenical Patriarchate Acts on Mode of Distribution of Holy Communion
June 25th, 202001119 NEW YORK – Today, June 25, 2020, The Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate released the summation of their work at the Meeting of the Holy Synod in Chambésy, Geneva at Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. This included consideration of the responses of the Local Autocephalous Churches to the May 17,...
Metropolitan Amphilochios of Kissamos slams “National Herald “for “flood of lies” and “perversion of truth”
July 1st, 201802758 New York.- (GreekNewsOnline) When on Tuesday, June 26, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America issued a strong statement accusing the “National Herald” for publishing and article “under the false and unsubstantiated title that “Archbishop Demetrios incites revolt against the Ecumenical Patriarchate,” some could think of it...