(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, marking ...

Some data suggests that 75% of converts to the Orthodox Church in America — the second ... in 2016 to “restore the ancient Order of the Deaconess.” Shortly afterward, the Patriarch ...

The Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa ordained Zimbabwean Angelic Molen as a deaconess in the Orthodox Church. Taking place on May 2, Orthodox Holy Thursday, the ordination was ...

Angelic Molen of Zimbabwe was ordained a deaconess in the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and of All Africa, a part of the Eastern Orthodox Church. (photo: St. Phoebe Center for the Deaconess) ...

After a lengthy and tangled dispute over ownership of one of South Florida’s oldest Christian Orthodox churches, its long-time leadership has lost a pivotal legal battle — and the keys to the ...

IN VIEW of the decision of the Bishops in the Upper House of Convocation with regard to a form of “Ordination” for Deaconesses, it is interesting to recall that there was in the early Church an ...

Rosa Harris-Jackson Armistead became the first African American woman preacher and deaconess of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Alexandria. She was first a member of Third Baptist Church under its ...

The Russian Orthodox Church is an outspoken exception. Patriarch Kirill, who leads the church, has described the conflict as a “holy war” and said that any young man who died in action would ...

the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa ordained in Zimbabwe the first deaconess of any patriarchate in the global Eastern Orthodox Church, marking the culmination of years of ...