450 A.D. (5200) The Assyrian Church splits over a doctrinal dispute. Mar Yacob leaves the Church of the East and establishes the Monophysitic Syrian Orthodox Church (also known as the Jacobite church) ...

On the Saturday before Holy Week, the Orthodox Church commemorates a major feast of the year, the miracle of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ when he raised Lazarus from the dead after he had lain in ...

The conclave system may seem dramatic, but it was developed after centuries of outside interference and looting.

Kiev held a mass to thank Constantinople for recognising the Ukrainian Church's independence The Russian Orthodox Church has cut ties with the Church leadership in Istanbul, the Constantinople ...

In 1745, after being received into the Russian Orthodox Church, and changing her name to Catherine, she married Grand Duke Peter, grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the Russian throne.

A Greek Orthodox monk on Mount Athos, the center of Orthodox monasticism, died at the age of 82 without ever seeing a woman.

People: Blessed are You, O Lord, teach me Your commandments. The choir of Saints has found the fountain of life and the door of Paradise. May I also find the way through repentance. I am the lost ...

The concept of the Russkiy Mir, or Russian World, positions Russia as more than a nation; it is a unique civilization whose ...

ROME — St. George Orthodox Church of New Hartford will host an Advent Paraklesis service at the Rome Cemetery Chapel, 1500 Jervis Ave., at 3 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 15. Each year on Nov. 15, 40 days ...

An aspect of Orthodox worship now finding a place in ... but also how, a small Church of England monastic community, just off the M23, has embraced multiculturalism; albeit of a slightly different ...

The neo-Nazi who inspired the lead character in American History X abandoned his anti-Semitic views and became an observant ...

Downward dog, sun salutations and all other yoga practices are "absolutely incompatible" with the Christian faith, the powerful Greek Orthodox Church has ... researched the history of yoga.