The head of the Coptic Church is scheduled to offer the Orthodox Divine Liturgy in the Catholic Archbasilica of St. John Lateran in Rome on May 14. According to Father Martin Browne, an official ...

The Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Mission celebrated the parish patronal feast, the Slava, on June 14. Parishioners and ...

A religion course with a professor who was an Orthodox Christian inspired him to attend his first liturgy at age 21. He converted two years later. “I wanted to be somewhere that was stable and ...

Cancel anytime. Members of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church attend the Divine Liturgy during bright week in the Central West End on April 27, 2025. ST. LOUIS — A surge of people converting ...

In 1976 the 250-member church relocated to NORTH ROYALTON. The church, part of the Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese in America, uses English in services and shares the same liturgy as other Eastern ...

Reasons for converting vary, including marrying into the faith, or the spirituality of Orthodox liturgy’s beauty, complete with robes, ringing bells, incense smells and beautiful painted icons.

But for almost half of U.S. Orthodox Christians, whose liturgy involves processions, incense, kissing icons and crosses and receiving Communion from a shared spoon and chalice, liturgical services ...

Orthodox Christians follow more ancient liturgical traditions and dogmatic formulations, said Demacopoulos. The Orthodox Church has a hierarchal tradition with bishops but no pope. Globally ...