One of the council's lasting legacies is the Nicene Creed, a profession of faith still recited by Christians of all big ...

(RNS) — On Thursday (May 2), the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa ordained in Zimbabwe the first deaconess of any patriarchate in the global Eastern Orthodox Church ...

The top figure in Eastern Orthodox Christianity on ... Moscow in 2019 — a move that prompted Russian Patriarch Kirill and the Russian Orthodox Church to sever contact. "No force can extinguish ...

An Armenian lawmaker affiliated with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s party posed on Tuesday for a photograph with a Roman ...

EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCHES. There are many parallels between the ... Eastern Orthodoxy evolved into several independent exarchates and patriarchies, with the patriarch of Constantinople as honorary ...

Pope Leo XIV met on Friday at the Vatican with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world’s ...

Bartholomew is considered first among equals among Eastern Orthodox patriarchs, which gives him prominence but not the power of a Catholic pope. Large portions of the Eastern Orthodox world are ...

PHOTOS: Bulgarians line the streets of the capital to bid farewell to Orthodox Patriarch Neophyte Bartholomew is considered first among equals among Eastern Orthodox patriarchs, which gives him ...

The organisers of the Ukraine peace summit, held earlier this month in Switzerland, have removed the Ecumenical Patriarchate of the Eastern Orthodox Church from the list of signatories following ...

Some Orthodox Christians are skeptical their church would agree. But Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians worldwide, has also expressed support for ...