A Ukrainian delegation to the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington will make the case that Russia threatens the religious ...

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 ...

Moreover, both the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholic churches allow married clergy ... from the more commodious practice of the early hierarchy. But—a further surprise for my audience ...

The opening of 600 positions for Greek Orthodox ... the Ukrainian Church’s autocephaly, said that the granting of Autocephaly is the exclusive prerogative of the Patriarch of Constantinople. When the ...

within the highest hierarchy of the church ... post-Francoist tensions in Spain to the challenges of the church in post-communist Eastern Europe. It was in Colombia that he faced his most ...

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 ...

Patriarch Kirill of Russia's Orthodox Church warns of neo-pagan influences in Ukraine's combat zone, urging clergy to counter ...

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

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

That brings us to 2025, which will see a remarkable coincidence: Both the Eastern and Western will hold Easter on the same ...

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...