Council of Constantinople (1923)

The Council of Constantinople of 1923 was a meeting of representatives of several local Eastern Orthodox Churches held in Constantinople from 10 May to 8 June 1923, convened at the initiative of Ecumenical Patriarch Meletius Metaxakis.

The Roman Catholic Church and almost all of Western Europe completed their switch from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, the current international standard, during the 16th century.

[2] Russia, and the rest of the Orthodox world, however, remained on the old calendar until this council.

[3] This council is extremely controversial within Eastern Orthodoxy—it led to many schisms in many autocephalous churches of different Old Calendarist groups.

[6] The acts and decisions of this council were first translated into English only in 2006, by the Rev.