Eastern Orthodox Church

"Glory to the holy and consubstantial, and life-giving, and undivided Trinity, always, now and forever and to the ages of ages."

This Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) official told the daily Politika that such a move would be opposed "by the entire Orthodox world."

The Greek Orthodox Church of America has always been considered the nucleus of community life and a significant part of the Greek-American identity.

The 33.5-meter cross - this number was chosen to commemorate the age of Jesus Christ when he was crucified - will be raised above an area where the Serbian Orthodox Monastery of Zica, Mataruska Banja (Spa), the Ibar Gorge, and the medieval town of Maglic are all located.

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios was in Athens on Monday for talks with President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said to have focused on the name talks between Athens and Skopje and the continued detention of two Greek soldiers by Turkey.

Pope Francis is ready for dialogue with the Russian Orthodox Church and Patriarch of Moscow and all the eastern cyrilllic. This statement was made by the Pontiff during a meeting with Metropolitan Ilarion Volokamski and other representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church during a meeting with the head of the External Church Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchate.

The dispute between Greece and Macedonia over the country's name has now involved Macedonia's main faith group, the Macedonian Orthodox Church, MPC.

The schimastic Orthodox Christian church of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has appealed to the Ecumenical Patriarchate to join its ranks, in a move that is seen as having an important impact on ongoing name talks between Skopje and Athens.

Firefighters in Istanbul rushed to the scene when a Greek woman working at the Hagia Nicola Greek Orthodox Church fell down a 30-meter-deep well. 

The Prologue: The Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate, the center of the Eastern Orthodox Christian faith worldwide, has learned that certain institutions in the United States, including the Morgan Library & Museum, Princeton University and Duke University, collectively hold eight Byzantine-era holy manuscripts that were stolen, along with many others, from the Eikosipho