The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America. Hundreds of pilgrims joined several bishops in ...

The two-day ceremony for Olga "Arrsamquq" Michael, known as Matushka Olga, brought together those drawn to her message of ...

The Orthodox Church in America offers new churches mission-planting grants, but local members funded the new church. Machnee’s father, who owns a cabinet company, did the interior woodwork.

America the Beautiful: ... a Russian Orthodox Church, the Sheik Center of New York and the Muslim Center are just a few of the notable houses of worship that operate side by side.

A surge of people converting to Orthodox Christianity is helping local parishes here buck the national trend of declining church attendance and membership at other Christian denominations.

Unlike the Roman Catholic Church, which has a single archbishop for each of the nearly 200 archdioceses in the U.S., the Greek Orthodox church has just one archdiocese in America, with nearly 600 ...