As Constantinople seethed under crusader pressure, Alexius IV tried to buy time with promises he could not keep, igniting resentment, riots, and a devastating urban fire. When Alexius V seized power ...

In April 1204, Crusader armies breached the walls of Constantinople after a brutal siege shaped by chance, wind, and desperation. What followed was not victory but catastrophe, as the greatest city in ...

The Fourth Crusade left three terrible legacies: a deepening religious split between the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic ...

The grant opening of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, the center of Orthodox Christianity for a millennium was held on ...

“The Russian Orthodox Church doesn’t recognize those decisions and won’t fulfill them,” Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev said in Belarus after a meeting of the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.

In the history of its numerous attempts (there were more than ten of them) to capture the ancient capital of Byzantium, there were several times that Russia was just a step away from realizing its ...

The terminal events surrounding the fall of great empires have long been studied, pondered and argued over. Edward Gibbon’s “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” comes to mind as one of the best ...

Archbishop says Church won't give up the name 'Macedonian' to a secure a 'tomos', or decree of independence, from head of global Orthodoxy in Constantinople. The head of the Macedonian Orthodox Church ...

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