Ecumenical Patriarch Completes Seven Day Visit to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America With Lecture on Byzantine Icons at Metropolitan Museum His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of over 250 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, will return to Istanbul, Turkey today following a seven day visit to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Yesterday he offered a lecture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and later attended a dinner at the Museum sponsored by the American Associates of the Saint Catherine Foundation. Full Text

Hundreds of School Children Welcome Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to St. Nicholas Church in Flushing and enthusiastically welcomed His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of over 250 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, to St. Nicholas Church in Flushing, NY on Wednesday, March 17. Full Text

His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of over 250 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, will make his fifth visit to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America from March 13-19. Full Text