Welcome to the world of Eastern Catholics, or Greek Catholics, or the term many Orthodox still use: Uniates, from the Latin word ‘unio’, meaning ‘unity’ or ‘one’. Their story is a living example of ...

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He had presented himself as a compromise candidate: appealing to conservatives with orthodox views on sexual matters while attracting the reformers with his liberal stance on social justice.

But this year it will. While the Catholic Church and Protestant denominations make use of the Gregorian Calendar, which was adopted in October 1582, the Orthodox Church still utilizes the Julian ...

The occasion is marked across the world, with most following the Roman Catholic church or belonging to Protestant denominations celebrating Easter a week before most of their Orthodox counterparts.

This year, Orthodox Easter will be observed on the same day as the Western one: Sunday, 20 April. The shared date is relatively rare as the churches use different calendars. Orthodox Easter is ...

For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine the date of Easter. But this Sunday will mark a special moment for Christians, as the churches ...

Tens of thousands of Greek Australians filed churches across the country this Good Friday to observe the solemn procession of the Epitaphios, one of the most sacred traditions of Orthodox Holy Week.

This year’s annual Holy Fire ceremony, which precedes Orthodox Easter, took place at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on April 19. The ceremony began at 10:15 a.m. Jerusalem time, which ...

But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIII’s adaptation in 1582, when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept ...