Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I is the current Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, serving as the 270th successor of the Apostolic See of St. Andrew. Since his election on 22 October 1991, he h
Patriarch Bartholomew I in 2023
United States President Barack Obama meets with Bartholomew I.
United States President Donald Trump meets with Bartholomew I and Archbishop Elpidophoros of America.
Pope Francis and Bartholomew I in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople is one of the autocephalous churches of the Eastern Orthodox Church. It is headed by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
Bartholomew I of Constantinople
…In 1958, he entered the historic Theological School of Halki on the island of that name (Turkish: Heybeliada), the spiritual and academic heart of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. He graduated in 1961 with a bachelor of theology with highest honors, after submitting his thesis on the "Restoration of Dissolved Marriage". Following…
St. George's Cathedral, Istanbul, headquarters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
The Church of Hagia Irene was the cathedral church of the Patriarchate before Hagia Sophia was completed in 360.
Hagia Sophia was the patriarchal cathedral until 1453.
Monument to St. Cyril and St. Methodius, Byzantine missionaries to the Slavs