Imagine stepping into a church that looks fully Orthodox—icons, incense, chanting, bearded priests—but it's actually Catholic ...

Orthodox leaders offered their condolences following the death of Pope Francis, remembering his sustained commitment to ...

Pope Francis has made greater unity with the Orthodox a priority of his pontificate; he has especially expressed his desire ...

The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic observances overlap only every three to four years thanks to different church calendars — and different lunar cycle calculations. It was a meeting of East ...

Christians around the world will celebrate on the same day this year, a relative rarity. Pope Francis would like to make it ...

A top official of the Moscow Patriarchate has lauded the role played by late Pope Francis in developing contacts of Catholics with the Russian Orthodox Church. Pope Francis died Monday. He was 88.

The majority of Bulgarians identify as Eastern Orthodox, while Roman Catholicism is a minority religion. The latter usually celebrate Easter a few days before Orthodox Christians, however every so ...

Catholics and Protestants usually observe ... the Gregorian calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, Eastern Orthodox churches use the older Julian calendar, established by Julius Caesar.

Orthodox Christianity, also known as the Eastern Orthodoxy, is one of the three major branches of Christianity, along with Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. Orthodox Christians follow more ...

For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have ... when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept the older Julian one.