Just like any other attempt to convene a pan-Orthodox synod (i.e., council) of the Eastern national Churches, the so-called “Pan-Orthodox Council of Constantinople” (held in Istanbul from May 10 to June 8, 1923 and pictured above) was doomed to fail from the very beginning.[1] For among the most important invited churches, several were absent: the Patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch…
