Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

This source names Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople directly: "and indirect financial support to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople from 2002 to 2025, publishing the Archons' own giving records rather than the Patriarchate's own consolidated finances."

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is the office at the head of this church.

This source names Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople directly: "and only formally recognized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1990."

This source names Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople directly: "within Eastern Orthodoxy under the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, governing the investigation and resolution of sexual misconduct complaints against clergy."

The Patriarchate granted autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in 2019.

The first see of the Eastern Orthodox communion; its bishop is first among equals.

The patriarchal style sung at the Phanar is treated across the Greek-speaking churches as the reference form of the tradition.

The tone of the week is set by the patriarchal calendar and followed by the churches in its jurisdiction.

The twenty ruling monasteries are self-governing under the canonical jurisdiction of the ecumenical patriarchate, which appoints its representative to the peninsula.

The ecumenical patriarch is first in honour among the Orthodox patriarchs, a primacy of order rather than of jurisdiction.

Constantinople receives Chalcedon as the fourth council, and the twenty-eighth canon of that council is the ground of the see rank in the Orthodox order of precedence.

Constantinople was a founding member, and its participation gave the new body an Orthodox presence from the first day rather than as a later addition.

Constantinople convened the council and holds it to be the great council of the Orthodox Church, the first of its kind in more than a thousand years.

The great church of Constantinople was the patriarchal cathedral until 1453 and remains the centre of the patriarchate's own history. The patriarchate objected publicly to the building's reconversion to a mosque in 2020.

Constantinople holds the primacy of honour within Orthodoxy on the same terms it denies to Rome: a precedence in order, not a jurisdiction over other churches.

Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.

Included in the wider Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canon beyond the Trent-era Roman Catholic deuterocanon, affirmed at the Synod of Jerusalem, 1672.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Almsgiving is bound closely to the fasting seasons, what is not spent on food being given away.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Holy Unction is one of the seven mysteries and is administered to the living faithful in general, most publicly on Holy Wednesday, and not to the dying alone.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Baptism is by threefold immersion, and is followed immediately by chrismation and communion in the same service.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Baptism, chrismation and first communion are given together in one rite, so the baptismal life begins in infancy and is not deferred to an age of discretion.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Orthodoxy ordains married men to the priesthood but requires that bishops be monks, so celibacy shapes the episcopate rather than the parish; Mount Athos remains the tradition's monastic centre.

Kept on December 25 under the revised calendar the Ecumenical Patriarchate adopted for the fixed feasts in 1924, while Pascha stays on the older reckoning.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The churching of a mother and the presentation of a child on the fortieth day is kept as a living rite here, not as a survival.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Orthodox confess standing beside the priest before an icon rather than through a grille, the priest understood as a witness rather than a judge, and confession is ordinarily expected before receiving communion.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Chrismation is given with baptism, in infancy, by a presbyter using chrism consecrated by a bishop. The rite completes initiation here rather than following it years later.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Prayers of exorcism are read over every candidate as a fixed part of the baptismal service, before the renunciation and the anointing.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. Orthodox fasting means abstinence rather than hunger: no meat, dairy, eggs, fish with backbones, wine or oil on the strictest days, kept through Great Lent and three further fasting seasons and on most Wednesdays and Fridays, which is roughly half the year.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The washing of feet is performed on Holy Thursday by a bishop, the Niptir, in the cathedral and in the great monasteries.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The funeral service, the Panikhida and the memorial services on the third, ninth and fortieth days form one continuous set of offices for the dead.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches.

Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The Jesus Prayer belongs to Orthodoxy, defended by Gregory Palamas against the charge that its practitioners claimed to see God's essence; monks and increasingly laypeople repeat it alone on a knotted woollen cord, and teachers warn against the breathing technique without direction.