The Rev. Soterios Rousakis, presiding priest at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Jamestown, is pictured Friday morning leading children in worship. St. Nicholas is celebrating 100 years and ...

President Vladimir Putin’s decision to attack Ukraine has split the Orthodox Church. Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, a leading authority of the Eastern Orthodox Church, quickly condemned the ...

MOSCOW -- If you enter the hall devoted to the 13th-century Russian Grand Prince Aleksandr Nevsky in one of Russia's new "history parks," you will find in huge letters the quotation "Boost your ...

McGuckin (The Book of Mystical Chapters), an emeritus professor of early Christianity and Byzantine studies, traces the history of the Eastern Orthodox Church from its founding to the present in this ...

(RNS) — Nearly 400 Orthodox Christian theologians from 44 countries convened in the largest international conference of its kind in Greece on Thursday (Jan. 12) to discuss “Nicaea-sized” questions ...

Editor’s Note: This is the ninth story in the Kyiv Post’s Honest History series that aims to debunk myths about Ukrainian history. The series is supported by the Black Sea Trust, a project of the ...

Boris and Gleb, sons of Vladimir the Great, baptizer of Rus, were the first indigenous Russian saints. Born not long before Rus converted to Orthodoxy, they were brought up in the Christian faith, and ...

It wasn’t until late fall of 1674 that Father Jacques Marquette launched his canoe in the frigid waters of Lake Michigan near the portage at Sturgeon Bay. Accompanied by two Frenchmen, he was aiming ...