Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

I mean, you do get things like, uh, someone I, I wish I could've found a way to incorporate in my book, but I, I just didn't.

But, uh, Charles Malik, he was a Lebanese ambassador, um, he's an archon in the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and he's Orthodox Christian.

Uh, I believe he was vice president of the American Bible Society for a while, but he also was one of the drafters of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, probably the, one of the principal drafters, in fact.

I mean, he was president of the, the UN at one point, and, you know, people might have mixed feelings about that document, but I think it's better than what came after it.

Eugenius IV is at odds with the Great Council of the Church meeting at Basel, which claims authority over him.

There is talk that he will summon his own council, perhaps in Italy, to negotiate a union with the Greek Orthodox Church of Constantinople, which is desperate for Western help against the Ottoman Turks.

In two years' time, that council will open at Ferrara and then move to Florence, bringing the Byzantine Emperor, the Patriarch of Constantinople, and hundreds of Greek churchmen and scholars to the city.

But tonight, that is only rumour.

It comes from the documents of the Ecumenical Patriarchy establishing the metropolia, the main diocese of Kyiv.

And from this church ecclesiastical, pure ecclesiastical documents, coming from the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Patriarchate of Constantinople, stems the very word Russia, Russia, which was later adopted by Moscow.

Which means that Ukrainian orthodoxy is prior to the Russian orthodoxy or to the Muscovite orthodoxy.

And Ukraine received its orthodoxy from the Ecumenical Patriarchate, indeed as Eastern Christianity.

And we still hold it.

There is a nuance that orthodoxy, yes, it is a majority, a religious majority in Ukraine, but it's not the only religious tradition in Ukraine.

It's a different thing indeed.

And you know, I believe, and this is a part of my studies that I've discovered, that the Ukrainian concept of synodality as it emerged in early modernity, like in the 17th century, or as it was articulated at the time, is quite unique even for the global orthodoxy.

Former Polish President Lech Walesa also attended the ceremony.

Catholicos Patriarch Shio III has received delegations from both, the Russian Orthodox Church and Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Talks with the Russian delegation focused on relations between the two countries and churches, including what the Georgian Patriarchate described as the country's troubled regions as Russia continues to occupy Abkhazia and Tskhinvali region.

Georgia's foreign ministry has summoned the Iranian Ambassador Ali Mujani following his controversial remarks about Queen Ketavan di Marta.

And our dialogue with them too, with our Protestant brothers and sisters, the same sacred goal, the re-establishment of perfect unity.

So in the Christian East, which remained without communion with the Western Christianity, the Church of Constantinople, the Patriarch of Constantinople became the first and we have a well-established hierarchical order according to which after Constantinople we have the Patriarchate of Alexandria and then Antioch and then Jerusalem and these are the four ancient Patriarchates of the Christian East.

And then we have the Patriarchates of Eastern Europe, Russia, Serbia, Romania and so on.

And after them we have autocephalous independent Orthodox churches which do not bear the title of a Patriarchate.

I think the Ortho Christian article is a bit more succinct.

It says here, leaked Constantinople doc confirms 2018 Unification Council in Ukraine was held under state pressure.

And you see this in this image.

It portrays former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko with Metropolitan Emmanuel, then of Gaul, at the so-called Unification Council in 2018.

And Metropolitan Emmanuel, this is one of the worst of the worst as far as Phanariots go.

But it says here, a leaked internal Constantinople document describes President Petro Poroshenko and Ukraine's security service keeping the Patriarch of Constantinople's delegation under round-the-clock surveillance in the days around the December 28th Unification Council, 2018 Unification Council in Kiev, which created the schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine.

According to an exclusive report by the Union of Orthodox Journalists of America, the document is a chronicle of more than 20 pages addressed to Patriarch Bartholomew, authored by Metropolitan Gregorios of Ankara, who was a deacon of the Patriarchal Court at the time.

Sorry, my nose was just really itchy.

The second thing was in 2004, Albania was 2007 and '8.

Uh, in 2004, when we were working at the, uh, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, or Istanbul, but I won't call it Istanbul, uh, we discovered a palimpsest, a manuscript that has been scraped over and text was written on top of it.

It's the undertext, which by definition is always older.

It was just two leaves in the back of a book, and it had Mark chapter three and Mark chapter six.