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 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.

Before Hagia Sophia dominated the skyline, Hagia Irene served as Constantinople's original patriarchal seat, and its bare mosaic dome still tells the story of one of Byzantium's most violent religious ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, October 15./TASS/. The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has ruled that further Eucharistic ties with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople are impossible, Chairman of the ...

Religious schism driven by political friction after Ukraine church granted independence The Russian Orthodox Church has announced it will break off relations with the Patriarchate of Constantinople in ...