Most (but not all) churches in the Greek Orthodox tradition have adopted this, as have those in Romanian, Bulgarian and other traditions. But the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest communion in ...

January 7th is Orthodox Christmas, ... During Orthodox Christmas, old traditions stay strong ... It's a remnant of the fur trade era and Russian colonialism.

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, center, delivers the Christmas service in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.

FILE - Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, center, delivers the Christmas service in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. While much of the world has Christmas ...

To remember the 12 disciples, in the Holy Supper traditions of Russian Orthodox Christians, they will eat 12 traditional dishes that include beet salad, borscht, boiled potatoes with onions, wheat ...

FILE - Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, center, delivers the Christmas service in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko ...

Ukraine passed a law moving the date of its official Christmas holiday to Dec. 25, dropping the Russian Orthodox Church’s tradition of celebrating the holiday on Jan. 7.

Thirty people sat around a family table on a cold Christmas Eve in January, holding their spoons. Under the table was a bed of hay, a symbol of the Christmas manger. Soon, the first dishes of a hol… ...

A Russian Orthodox Church priest makes the sign of the cross during an Orthodox Christmas service at the Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana near the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Russia, late Saturday ...

The national government and one Orthodox church observed Christmas on Dec. 25, distancing themselves from Russian tradition, but another Orthodox church retained the Jan. 7 observance.

Certain Eastern Orthodox churches, including those in Russian and other traditions, follow the ancient Julian calendar, which runs 13 days later than the Gregorian calendar, used by Catholic and ...

FILE - Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, center, delivers the Christmas service in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. While much of the world has Christmas ...