The Holy Light arrived in Greece on Holy Saturday and will be making its way across the country as Greeks prepare to mark ...

The official ceremony began at 14:15, after the sealing of the Holy Sepulchre was broken. The Patriarch of Jerusalem, ...

The ceremony began at 10:15 a.m. Jerusalem time, which matches Kyiv time. The procession, led by the Armenian Orthodox ...

The patriarch added: "The tragic events unfolding ... The congregation gathered for this Triumph of Orthodoxy rite included the Greek ambassador to Syria, Emmanuel Kakavelakis, and Nikolaos ...

A miracle worker and prophet of ‘patriotic Orthodoxy’, his personality greatly influenced those of the Patriarch of Moscow and President Putin. On 15 March last, the Orthodox starets Ilja ...

a rival faction within Indian Orthodoxy. The Patriarch of Antioch Ignatius Aphrem II, the head of the Syriac Orthodox Church, led the consecration ceremony at St Mary’s Syrian Orthodox Cathedral ...

Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew have expressed ... Orthodox Christianity, also known as the Eastern Orthodoxy, is one of the three major branches of Christianity, along with ...

This narrative, promoted through the Russian Orthodox Church and reinforced by the myth of “Moscow as the Third Rome,” casts Russia as the spiritual center of Eastern Orthodoxy ... the Moscow ...

one of the most senior hierarchs of Orthodoxy, analyzes the crises shaking Orthodox Christianity. Accusing Patriarch Kirill of Moscow of “distorting” the Gospel, Metropolitan Emmanuel notes that ...

At the outset of his studies, he knew little about contemporary Greece; his first letter to the Greek Orthodox patriarch, Jeremias II ... the Lutherans were the genuine custodians of Christian ...

The Greeks wanted to link their liberation from the Ottomans with this holy day, thus, Greeks and Orthodoxy would remain inextricably ... When Grigorios became Patriarch in 1797 he took Germanos with ...