One morning in October of 2023, Miami police were called to remove a “squatter” who had, or so the ecclesiastical complainants claimed, taken up illegal residence in one of South Florida’s oldest ...

The last deaconess of the Armenian Church was Hripsime Sasunian, who died in 2007. A decade after her death, in 2017, ...

Although the particular churches possess their own hierarchy, differ in liturgical ... shepherd of the rites of the West and the East. The eastern rites which have a separate code of canon law ...

its guiding Russian Orthodox hierarchy, to view the weekly worship calendar and to learn all about what to expect if you’re new to the Eastern Orthodox Church. For precise directions to the ...

It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the 'hierarchy of the truths ... a point of disagreement with the Orthodox Churches." 248. "At the outset the Eastern tradition expresses ...

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories ...

Wojtyla ascended rapidly through the Catholic hierarchy after this ... sought reconciliation with various branches of Christianity, including the eastern Orthodox and Anglican churches. However the ...

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou retracted his claim that the U.S. paid the Ecumenical Patriarchate to grant autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who is considered the “first among equals” in Eastern Orthodoxy, said any ...

As President Donald Trump's administration works toward a diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine, the leaders of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) are warning that Vladimir Putin's Russia ...