St. Patrick is as a Roman Catholic figure, but a church in Grevena, in northern Greece, has always celebrated him.

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Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...

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 ...

While Pope Francis previously announced plans to travel to Turkey, one possible obstacle to a universal agreement could be ...

Archbishop Elpidophoros, who leads the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America visited New Orleans Friday, bringing a message ...

How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny.

The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories ...

It’s an intriguing title. The Book of Before & After sounds like a novel by Philip Pullman. In fact it is a translation of ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

The appeal comes as Moldova's Orthodox ... branch of the church to Romania since the conflict began. There is also a political dimension to the schism, with most of Moldova’s current territory having ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew leads the official door-opening ceremony of lower Manhattan’s St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Nov. 2 ... Ukraine’s consul general to Istanbul, Nedilskyi Roman, ...