(Wikipedia) The Supreme head of the Syriac Orthodox Church anointed the new leader ... Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil, the head of India-based Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church, said that the ...

whereas the Eastern Orthodox Churches recognise seven ecumenical councils including the first three. The Armenian Apostolic Church has two Catholicosates: the Catholicosate of All Armenians ...

Christians around the world observe Lent to varying degrees, but none with more zeal than the Eastern Orthodox, the vast branch of Christendom that split from the western Roman Catholic church a ...