Visit the homepage for more information. Eastern Orthodox churches today, to be differentiated from Roman Catholic communions of the Eastern Rite, are those churches which find their apostolic head in ...

Eastern Orthodox Churches are self-governing bodies of Christians adhering to a pure and unbroken line from the first days of the Apostles and the disciples of Jesus. Originally in communion with the ...

Therefore our holy Mother, the Church of Christ, now brings to our help the all-holy Cross, the joy of the world, the strength of the faithful, the staff of the just, and the hope of sinners, so that ...

Large buildings featuring the Star of David, an Eastern Orthodox cross and a crucifix — all in a row. Noor Moughamian: [speaking in Armenian] It means my name is Noor; what’s your name? Olivia ...

For the agreed statements between Oriental and Eastern Orthodox Churches, see, Restoring the Unity in Faith: The Orthodox-Oriental Theological Dialogue (Holy Cross Press, 2007). Dr. Vrame is director ...

But for almost half of U.S. Orthodox Christians, whose liturgy involves processions, incense, kissing icons and crosses and receiving Communion from a shared spoon and chalice, liturgical services ...

The congregation of St. Mary and St. Kyrillos Coptic Orthodox Church of Hatfield opened its doors and its culture to the ...

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church marks today the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, a day known in Bulgaria as "Krastovden" or the Day of the Cross.This day is one of four occasions during ...

The Russian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church with an estimated 150 million members, accounting for more than half of the world’s Orthodox Christians. The leader of the ...

The Monastery of the Caves, one of the holiest sites of Eastern Orthodox Christians, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 23, 2023. EFREM LUKATSKY / AP Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday, August 20 ...

The jurisdiction was granted autocephaly or independence in 2019 by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, called “first among equals” among Eastern Orthodox leaders. The recognition ...