Others see the female diaconate as a break from tradition and believe it undermines the Orthodox hierarchy ... for other branches of the Orthodox Church. “Being the first to do anything is ...

Immigration helped fuel the growth of America’s Orthodox churches more than a century ago. Now, it’s conversions from other ...

A united American Orthodox Church will be much better able to speak ... without resorting to the more mechanical means of a single hierarchy, at least as a temporary means to overcome the real ...

The hierarchy of the Patriarchate remains disproportionately ... Some data suggests that 75% of converts to the Orthodox ...

Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the Orthodox Church of Albania after the fall of the communist regime in the country, has ...

The publication of the Vatican declaration Fiducia supplicans in December 2023, allowing the blessing of same-sex couples in ...

Greece’s mobilization to strengthen the churches of the Diaspora by appointing a few hundred priests comes at a time when the ‘tug-of-war’ between Moscow and the Ecumenical Patriarchate over the ...

Archbishop Anastasios, head of the Orthodox Church of Albania, died at a hospital in Athens at the age of 95 on Saturday, the ...

Orthodox Christians around the world have been celebrating Christmas by attending church services. While the majority of the Christian world celebrate Christmas Day on 25 December, for many of the ...

says the initiative was partly inspired by calls from the Orthodox church hierarchy urging clergy to promote family life. “I think we did the obvious thing: Help the people here keep our village ...

Archbishop Anastasios, an ecumenical movement leader credited with helping to revitalize the Orthodox Church in ...