The Catholic Encyclopedia describes ... they have similar if not identical liturgy. The churches using the Byzantine liturgy include the Albanian, Belarussian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek ...

The church flaunts a monumental Byzantine style and stresses the religious ... and the Balkan region in Durrës, Albania, and now even extending to the Upper Adriatic. The basilica likely served ...

The increase in the Albanian population within Kosovo is often neglected, first around Prizren, Peja, Gjakova. Many Catholic Albanians converted to Islam. One of the reasons for this is that the ...

Albania’s Orthodox Church has elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of communism in 1990 ...

For example, there are 22 eastern Churches sui iuris, made up of two Alexandrian, three Antiochene, one Armenian, two Chaldean and 14 Byzantine. Information on each of these sui iuris Churches as ...

Jose Iglesias [email protected] Pews were packed at an Ash Wednesday mass led by Miami’s Archbishop Thomas Wenski at Broward’s oldest Catholic Church earlier this afternoon.

He also took the oath of fidelity, committing to maintain communion with the Catholic Church, preserve the integrity of the faith and promote ecclesiastical discipline. The Mass was concelebrated ...

In a significant act for the head of the Catholic Church, Francis concluded by speaking of non-Catholics who have inspired him: Martin Luther King Jr., Desmond Tutu and Mahatma Gandhi. In his last ...

“People migrated out of the city.” This arc of a storied church in what was once a deeply Catholic city has in many ways mirrored what has taken place around the country, as ethnic ...

Bishop Manuel Nin, the apostolic exarch to the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church, called it “unhealthy” to fixate on something that was ultimately “in God’s hands.” But some clerics ...

Holy Ghost Byzantine Catholic Church in Jessup will celebrate its 125th anniversary on June 8. Planning committee members include, first row, from left: Gerald and Jean Marie Ziminskas, Margaret ...

PITTSBURGH — There’s no question as to what menu item is the most ordered at Friday fish fries during Lent. Across the region, in dining halls both large and small, Pittsburghers love their ...