The Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate proudly mark the 40th anniversary of the Athenagoras Human Rights Award.

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew met on September 21, 2026, with His Majesty King Charles III at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.

On Friday, September 18, 2026, the Regional Commanders of the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for the Metropolis of Pittsburgh, Archons Nicholas Terezis and Nicholas J. Tranto, presented a ...

Dear Brother Archons and friends of the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos, a Greek Orthodox nun who has lived in the Holy Land for many years, recently granted a ...

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew greets Former Secretary of State Hon. Michael R. Pompeo, October 2021 (Photos by J. Mindala) With the blessings of His All-Holiness Ecumenical ...

Dear Brother Archons and Friends of the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Longtime friend of the Archons and frequent participant in our international conferences on religious freedom, Willy ...

Dear Brother Archons and Friends of the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, The Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (AEP) note with dismay and regret that Russian Orthodox clergy who are ...

The Halki Theological School has been closed since 1971. For over a century, the Theological School of Halki was one of the foremost Orthodox seminaries anywhere in the world, training hierarchs and ...

Ask most people who leads the Eastern Orthodox Church, and you will get a blank look or a guess that there must be “an Orthodox pope”; there is not. Leadership in Orthodoxy works on a different logic ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in a private meeting with Pope Leo at the Vatican. On Sunday, May 18, 2025, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew flew to Rome to attend the inauguration ...

The Christians of Syria are one of the oldest Christian communities in the world. Today, however, that community faces the very real possibility of being extinguished altogether. The Archons of the ...

These conversions to the Christian Faith by members of his own family infuriated the Proconsul Aegeates, and he decided, with the urging of the idolators who advised him, to crucify Andrew. The ...