Ecumenical Patriarchate

Russia's theory of diminished sovereignty for Ukraine is linked to its refusal to recognise an autocephalous Church, as it does with all other national autocephalous Churches.

Adnan Menderes Demokrat Parti (DP) used party-controlled trade unions of Istanbul and minions from Anatolia to destroy within a period of nine hours over 4,000 Greek businesses and over 3,000 Greek homes.

A team from the University of Thessaloniki has completed a blueprint for the structural overhaul of the seminary to create living quarters for over 100 students and facilities to host major international conferences.

'There was absolute concord and identical views in both Churches, both on the proposals regarding the revision of the Constitution and on maintaining the existing system for paying the salaries of the Orthodox clergy.'

Seeking primacy in the Orthodox world, the Russians historically called Moscow the “third Rome”,  after the collapse of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium)

The Patriarchate of Moscow said that even lay people are not permitted to participate in sacraments conducted by clergy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

Metropolitan Hilarion, the Moscow Church's foreign secretary, warned that 'half of the Orthodox will no longer recognise Patriarch Vartholomeos as the first [ranking bishop] in the family of Orthodox Churches'.

The Ukrainian issue, and the prospect of the Ecumenical Patriarchate granting the Orthodox Church of Ukraine independence is the largest and most serious administrative problem since the collapse of the Soviet Union