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by bcadmin | Nov 14, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Cyprus, Greek Orthodox, News, Orthodox Church | 0 |
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Chrysostomos II, the leader of Cyprus’ Orthodox Church, was laid to rest Saturday with a ceremony that reflected centuries of ecclesiastical tradition, eulogized as his church’s greatest reformer and an outspoken fighter for his people. The spiritual head of the world’s 300 million Orthodox, Istanbul-based Patriarch Bartholomew, […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 7, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Cyprus, Greek Orthodox, News, Obituary, Orthodox Church | 0 |
Archbishop Chrysostomos II, the outspoken leader of Cyprus’ Greek Orthodox Christian Church whose forays into the country’s complex politics and finances fired up supporters and detractors alike, died Monday. He was 81.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 21, 2022 | Associated Press, Church History, Church in Europe, Greece, Greek Orthodox, News, Orthodox Church | 0 |
Deep inside a medieval fortified monastery on Mount Athos, researchers are for the first time tapping a virtually unknown treasure — thousands of Ottoman-era manuscripts that include the oldest of their kind in the world.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, COVID restrictions, Easter, Greece, Greek Orthodox, News | 0 |
For the first time in three years, Greeks were able to celebrate Orthodox Easter without the restrictions made necessary by the coronavirus pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 20, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, COVID-19, Easter, Greece, Greek Orthodox, News | 0 |
Inside Greece’s Orthodox churches, candles are a symbol of faith and simplicity, slender and traditionally made of beeswax, and placed in large candleholders filled with sand.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 10, 2022 | anti-Christian violence, Arson, Associated Press, Church in Europe, Greece, Greek Orthodox, News | 0 |
A Greek prosecutor on Wednesday brought terrorism charges against three people accused of participation in an arson attack by an extremist anarchist group against an Orthodox Christian religious society in the northern city of Thessaloniki.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 6, 2021 | Adam A.J. DeVille, Antonio Spadaro SJ, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Ecumenism, Greek Orthodox, News, Pope Francis, The Dispatch | 0 |
When it comes to Pope Francis, what’s the Big Picture? It’s a question a friendly acquaintance put to me, roughly, this past week. I was surprised by my inability to articulate an answer that was […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 5, 2021 | Associated Press, Breaking News, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Church in Europe, Greece, Greek Orthodox, News, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus | 0 |
Pope Francis was heckled by an elderly Greek Orthodox priest on Saturday as he arrived for a meeting with the head of the country’s Orthodox Church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Associated Press, Breaking News, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Church in Europe, Cyprus, Greek Orthodox, lead, News, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus | 0 |
Pope Francis met Friday with the leader of Cyprus’ Greek Orthodox Church with the aim of further mending an ideological and political rift between the Catholic West and the Orthodox East that dates back nearly a millennium.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 7, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Greek Orthodox, News, Patriarch Bartholomew | 0 |
Toward the end of his first apostolic visit to the U.S. in many years, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople was hospitalized Nov. 3 at Mount Sinai Hospital in the New York City to undergo stent placement.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 5, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, Greece, Greek Orthodox, News | 0 |
Greece’s powerful Orthodox Church Thursday urged members of its congregations to attend services with vaccination or test certificates, as the country’s daily number of confirmed new infections hit a record high for the second time in a few days.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 4, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in the US, Greek Orthodox, News, Patriarch Bartholomew | 0 |
The spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians was staying overnight in a New York City hospital after having a stent placement Wednesday afternoon at the conclusion of his U.S. visit.
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