As Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I is "primus inter pares" (first among equals) among the patriarchs of the Eastern Orthodox Church and is its spiritual leader.

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This is the story of Constantinople’s fall, how Europe’s richest city fell to the Turks and became known as Istanbul: the story of the Great Siege of 1453. When history's greatest ...

Constantinople brings its cross-cultural music to the Methodist Church in Saranac Sunday, May 4. Photo provided The band, Constantinople, weaves that history into its music.

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After the Great Schism of 1054, which broke Christianity into Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox communions, things got a bit complicated. Constantinople remained the center of the Greek Orthodox ...

Successive attacks from the Latins, Serbs, Bulgarians and Ottoman Turks, as well as mass fatalities from the Black Death, had weakened the Byzantine Empire and the population within Constantinople ...

CNA Newsroom, Mar 15, 2025 / 08:00 am Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople on Wednesday offered a hopeful historical assessment of the traditional 1054 date for the “Great Schism ...

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Posted: March 2, 2025 | Last updated: March 2, 2025 Journey back in time as we explore the dramatic fall of Constantinople!

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