With only 19 parishes in his eparchy, the new bishop of Holy Protection of Mary Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Phoenix, Artur ...

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Church, has zealously backed Russia’s ‘special military operation’ and castigates a morally ...

Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine ...

Empress Irene of Athens, a pivotal figure in Byzantine history, navigated a world of political intrigue and religious ...

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter ... who then carry them around the church while following an icon of ...

Thousands of Albanians Pay Last Respects to Orthodox Christian Archbishop Anastasios TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Thousands of Albanians gathered in the capital on Thursday to pay their last respects ...

She supported the iconophiles, who believed in the veneration of religious icons, leaving a lasting impact on Greek Orthodox Christianity ... out of the ordinary in the grand scheme of Roman/Byzantine ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Archbishop Anastasios Yanoulatos, head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, leads the Easter ...

The House of Leaves provides insight into the country's recent communist history, while the Great Mosque of Tirana and the Orthodox Autocephalous ... also visit the Byzantine-era Fortress of ...

The small chapel, which depicts icons of Greek Orthodox saints and biblical stories, was painted in a “modern pseudo-Byzantine style”, according to Mr Hart, who has been commissioned to paint ...

Rabbi Ari Berman delivering the benediction at Trump's 2025 Inauguration President Donald Trump once again turned to the Orthodox community to give a benediction on behalf of American Jewry at his ...