The list of objects was compiled by a scholar who "simply dug up information about various farmsteads and jurisdictions of Constantinople, which were available at different times" MOSCOW, November 24.

The Russian Orthodox Church accused Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople of the invasion of its canonical territory and decided to cut religious ties between the two patriarchates ...

“The Russian Orthodox Church doesn’t recognize those decisions and won’t fulfill them,” Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev said in Belarus after a meeting of the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The Russian Orthodox Church on Monday angrily broke all ties with the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, the worldwide leadership of Orthodox Christianity, in response to a decision ...

The Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople on Oct. 11 recognized the legitimacy of bishops of the Kyiv Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church as part of the ...

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KIEV, October 16. /TASS/. Constantinople’s decision to revoke the 1686 Act confirming the Metropolitan of Kiev as part of the Moscow Patriarchate is wreaking havoc among local Orthodox Churches and ...

Russian bishop Metropolitan Hilarion said recognising Ukraine's Church as independent went "against historical truth" In a major religious split, the Russian Orthodox Church has cut ties with the body ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Russian Orthodox Church is breaking ties with the Constantinople Patriarchate over its decision to grant independence to the ...

The Russian Orthodox Church has decided to end its relationship with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in protest over its endorsement of Ukraine's request for an autocephalous, or ...

Russia's Orthodox Church has severed ties with the Constantinople Patriarchate, the leader of the worldwide Orthodox community. The move comes after it granted independence to the Ukrainian Orthodox ...