Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill in Havana, February 12, 2016. (Alejandro Ernesto/AFP/Getty) ... Russian Orthodoxy is the heir of a rich spiritual and theological tradition.

He has been formally sanctioned by several states, an astonishing development for the most important patriarch by population in Orthodoxy; some half of all Orthodox Christians are in Russia.

Athenagoras I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, and by virtue of that the spiritual leader of Orthodoxy, came from Istanbul.

Patriarch Kirill speaks during the Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 27, ... Orthodoxy has unofficially succeeded Marxism-Leninism as a kind of state ideology, ...

The Western trend of gender reassignment is a “sign of apocalypses,” Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, told Russian state news agency TASS in an interview broadcast on ...

Orthodoxy in Greece has mixed feelings about the Patriarch. Rome-hating Archbishop Chrysostomos of Athens deplored Athenagoras’ Holy Land visit as “hasty.” ...

Pope Leo XIV welcomed a delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarchate, emphasizing the shared commitment to the journey toward ...

Updated at 2:00 p.m. ET on May 9, 2024. In late August of 2018, Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, flew from Moscow to Istanbul on an urgent mission. He brought with him ...

In turn, in world Orthodoxy, Patriarch Bartholomew is criticized for the fact that his interference in Ukrainian affairs not only did not solve “the most important problem” — the split of Ukrainian ...

Bulgarian Patriarch Neophyte leads Palm Sunday liturgy at Alexander Newsky Cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria, on April 12, 2020. Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria, who was the first elected head of the ...

Neophyte, who became patriarch in 2013, was the first head of the Bulgarian church to be chosen after the fall of Communism in 1989. He died in a hospital in Sofia after a long illness.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a conversation with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Wednesday, August 21, according to the President. According to Zelenskyy, during the ...