Such was their influence in Church history, through their evangelization efforts, that Pope John Paul II named the two ...

The Catholic Encyclopedia ... if not identical liturgy. The churches using the Byzantine liturgy include the Albanian, Belarussian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Hungarian, Italo-Albanian, Melkite ...

Drawing heavily from antiquity, the Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked.

Nine villages in southern Italy known as La Grecia Salentina have maintained aspects of the Greek language and culture for ...

As clergy and faithful present proclaimed “Axios! Axios! Axios!” (Greek for “He is worthy”), Fr. Artur Bubnevych was ...

This group, previously active in the 1990s, comprised Greek Catholic and Orthodox ... past spoken about his church’s unique ecumenical position, maintaining the Byzantine liturgical tradition ...

He served as a cantor, contributed to the church’s weekly ... was a member of the Greek Catholic Union #164. George also generously volunteered as a bus driver for Byzantine Catholic Central ...

Joseph Yacoub, a specialist in Eastern Christians, examines Syria’s historical identity, highlighting its neglected Christian ...

Also known as Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, is celebrated on June 27 by the universal Church. The devotion to ... with background of gold. It is Byzantine in style and is supposed to have been ...

In a remote corner of Thailand, near the edge of a conflict zone, a newly built Catholic ... more than 400 churches on the Greek island of Mykonos. Dating back to 1425, the Byzantine-Cycladic ...