When I began exploring the history of Christianity and the art it inspired, I had no idea it would lead me to one of the ...

Members of the Russian Orthodox Christian Church welcomed the bishop of Syracuse to the new temple in Winfield on Wednesday morning. Bishop Luke of Syracuse, abbot of Holy Trinity Monastery and rector ...

Good Friday was celebrated in Tallinn yesterday with the traditional Way of the Cross. For the first time, this year, the Way of the Cross in the Estonian Capital led to an Orthodox church.

BYZANTINE RITE CATHOLICS. The Byzantine Rite Catholic Church resulted from efforts by the Roman Catholic Church to convert Eastern Orthodox Christians in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire during the ...

Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, the largest Orthodox church in the country, has some of the most impressive Byzantine-style icons in Houston. The gray stone cathedral with a gold dome sits ...

"With this cross, I pray you bring peace to the world and make America invincible!" said Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

The oldest known depiction of the Crucifixion of Christ is housed in the Greek Orthodox Holy Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai. This rare icon blends Greco-Roman art traditions with early ...

As the third anniversary of the invasion approaches, Ukraine’s fate remains uncertain. The death toll mounts; war weariness and discontent are spreading in both Russia and Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia’s ...

MILL BASIN — It was a dual, milestone celebration, as Brooklyn’s Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church and the Dimitrios and Georgia Kaloidis Parochial School, commemorated 60 and 45 years of ...

Video. A large crowd watched on as dozens of swimmers rushed to retrieve a wooden cross thrown by a priest into the water, in a ceremony marking Epiphany near the port of Piraeus outside Athens on ...

The cross-in-square plan with a central dome, for example, which was first perfected during the Byzantine era, continues to be the standard template for the construction of Orthodox churches ...