Tag: Constantinople

Athenagoras: The EP is not an Orthodox Vatican

February 15, 2024

For a while now, I’ve been documenting the close relationship between the U.S. government and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras in the early years of the Cold War. It was thanks in large part to American…
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Greek Orthodox Opposition to Slavery in 1862

April 27, 2015

This article has been updated and is available HERE.
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Early stages of the Bulgarian schism from Constantinople

December 7, 2012

We just finished running a series of six articles on the 1872 Council of Constantinople, published contemporaneously in the Methodist Quarterly Review. The following article is from about a decade earlier, and describes the…
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The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 6

December 6, 2012

This is the final Methodist Quarterly Review article dealing with the aftermath of the 1872 Council of Constantinople. From the Methodist Quarterly Review, April 1874. The Bulgarian Church question has, on the whole,…
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The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 5

December 5, 2012

This article is the fifth in a six-part series on the 1872 Council of Constantinople. In this installment, we learn about the aftermath of the Council. The one bishop who refused to sign the…
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The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 4

December 4, 2012

This article is the fourth in a six-part series on the 1872 Council of Constantinople, and this particular report covers the Council itself. It contains what is, to the best of my knowledge, the…
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The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 3

December 3, 2012

In case you haven’t been following along, this is Part 3 in a 6-part series of articles we began last week, covering the 1872 Council of Constantinople, which famously condemned “phyletism.” All of these…
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The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 2

November 30, 2012

Yesterday, I ran the first of six articles on the so-called “Bulgarian Question,” a controversy that rocked the Orthodox world in the early 1870s and ultimately led to the 1872 Council of Constantinople, which…
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The “Bulgarian Question” and the 1872 Council of Constantinople, Part 1

November 29, 2012

Recently, I had occasion to research the 1872 Council of Constantinople, which somewhat famously condemned “ethno-phyletism.” The issue arose because, as I understand it, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church — which was under the jurisdiction…
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The Dionisije Conundrum and why deference doesn’t work

June 14, 2011

I’m assuming, in this short article, that you’ve read about Serbian Diocese v. Milivojevich. But for those who haven’t: the Serbian Holy Assembly deposed Bishop Dionisije Milivojevich, and Illinois courts basically overruled the deposition…
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