The Ecumenical Patriarch welcomed the Archbishop of Cyprus
6. March 2020 - 14:29
Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus is at the Ecumenical Patriarchate to meet with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The visit is part of the invitation of the Ecumenical Patriarch to the Hierarch of Cyprus.
“Maintain the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace” (Eph 4:3)
27. February 2020 - 22:18
The Amman Fraternal Gathering of the Orthodox Primates and Delegates
Following the initiative for dialogue and reconciliation announced by the Patriarchate of Jerusalem, and His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III in November 2019, the Amman Fraternal Familial Gathering was hosted today in the capital of Jordan, with attendance of Primates and Delegations from various Orthodox churches. The purpose of the gathering was to renew dialogue and promote unity between brothers within the Orthodox Communion.
Archbishop Melchizedek conveyed the brotherly wishes of Patriarch Ilia of Georgia to the Ecumenical Patriarch.
2. March 2020 - 17:53
“Your All-Holiness, the Phanar always acts as a Mother Church because it is our genuine Mother. It is the Church, which, after so much effort, struggle, and sacrifices, gave birth to all Churches and holds a dominant position amongst the ancient Patriarchates. That is why we are pleased to come to you at every opportunity. The people of Georgia love you. All Iberia is celebrating with great joy your 80th birthday, is praying for you, and wishing you all the best. Your All-Holiness, may you live a long life! May God bless you with strength, resilience, and persistence to remain the pillar in our Church,” he said.
20.000 faithful in a cross-procession at Plejvlja, Montenegro:
21. February 2020 - 22:23
A magnificent procession of the faithful led by His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije and His Grace Atanasije
Even the cold weather on the 22nd of February 2020 could not hinder the congregation of Pljevlja to gather at the Church of Venerable Mother Parasceva, where the procession set off, thus expressing their protest over the adoption of the Law on Freedom of Religion of Montenegro
Catechetical Homily of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on the beginning of Holy and Great Lent, 2020
27. February 2020 - 17:20The Ecumenical Patriarchate has published Patriarch Bartholomew’s Catechetical Homily at the opening of Holy and Great Lent (2020).
+ BARTHOLOMEW
BY GOD’S MERCY
ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE – NEW ROME
AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH
TO THE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH,
MAY THE GRACE AND PEACE
OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST,
TOGETHER WITH OUR PRAYER, BLESSING AND FORGIVENESS
BE WITH YOU ALL
We offer hymns of thanks to the God of love as once again we enter Holy and Great Lent, the arena of ascetic struggle, fasting and abstinence, of vigilance and spiritual awareness, of guarding our senses and prayer, of humility and self-knowledge. We are commencing a new and blessed pilgrimage toward Holy Pascha, which has “opened for us the gates of paradise.”
