In 1453, the Ottomans seized Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and the life of its last emperor, Constantine ...

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, with its headquarters located in the City of New York, is an Eparchy of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, The mission of th ...

St. Michael’s Greek Catholic Church hosted its annual cultural heritage festival on Sunday. The St. Michael’s Carpathian ...

Founded in the 4th century, Sümela is a gravity-defying marvel, hanging nearly 1,000 feet over a wooded valley in Turkey, ...

Explore Greek philosopher Pletho Gemistos, his radical reforms, influence on Renaissance thinkers, and the revival of ...

In the Armenian Apostolic Church there are a few feasts dedicated to the Holy Cross. One of them is “Discovering the Cross” ...

If its ancient walls could talk, Sümela Monastery in eastern Turkey would have ... has witnessed the evolution of the Roman Empire into the Byzantine era, the rise of the Ottomans, the struggle ...

BYZANTINE. The largest of these eastern ... church, but modified by St. Basil (329-379) and St. John Chrysostom (344-407). This liturgy is similar if not identical to the liturgy used by the ...

they instinctively drew on the sacred stories that they sang at church. The result was a myth of Christian origins for Rus - a myth promulgated even today by the Russian government - which reproduced ...

Since its founding in the 4th-century CE by some of the earliest Christians to arrive along the Black Sea coast, the shrine has witnessed the evolution of the Roman Empire into the Byzantine era ...