Rare heraldic tiles were recently discovered under wooden floors at former Basilian monastery in Chełm, Poland, offering a view into 18th-century monastic life.

KIEV, January 9. /TASS/. Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland has called Epifany, the head of the new Orthodox Church of Ukraine, a secular person but not an ordained priest, so the Polish ...

Over time—first from the Polish Orthodox Church which itself claimed to be the rightful successor to the old Metropolitanate of Kiev—and then from the Ecumenical Patriarch, hierarchs viewed as ...

Orthodox churches in Europe and the United States are committed to ecumenism, and their representatives to international ecumenical organizations were quick to express unease with Sawa’s stance.

In a few days, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew, the foremost leader in the Eastern Christian church, is scheduled to recognize the newly founded Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Thousands of Polish Orthodox Christians are on their way to the Holy Mount of Grabarka near Siemiatycze in eastern Poland for the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, which is celebrated on ...

As the wife of an Orthodox Christian priest, she was a “matushka,” or spiritual mother to many more. The Yup’ik woman became known in church communities across Alaska for quiet generosity, piety and ...

The president of Poland’s Catholic bishops’ conference has urged the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to ask President Vladimir Putin to stop the war in Ukraine. In a strongly worded letter ...

The Orthodox Church prevented Polish-born Pope John Paul II from making a trip to Russia. The Orthodox also have accused the Vatican of seeking Catholic converts in traditionally Orthodox areas ...

Several thousand Orthodox Christians have attended ceremonies at a holy site in the east of Poland to mark the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord.

They came to America with little more than their faith but they started a generations-long legacy. Sacrifices made by members of St. John the Baptist Polish National Catholic Church allowed parishi… ...

ATHENS, Greece (RNS) — Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew's decision to recognize an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church has led to fears of a schism among Orthodox Christians.