Albania’s Orthodox Church has elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of communism in 1990 ...

But when exactly Easter Sunday occurs during the season changes each year. In 2025, the holiday is April 20, which is one of ...

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Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. For the most part, it is Christians in the Serbian Orthodox Church who celebrate Christmas in Kosovo, but there are also some Roman ...

Celebrations continue through until 6 January which marks the date for orthodox Christmas or the Feast of the Epiphany for non-Orthodox Christians. During these celebrations there are two very special ...

Recently, however, he noted a subtle shift: “During the Orthodox Christmas interviews in early January, several priests sent to the Ukrainian front reported to Patriarch Kirill that the Russian ...

Marina Angel was born July 21, 1944, in Manhattan. She earned a bachelor’s degree ... and was active at St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Philadelphia and St. Thomas Greek Orthodox Church in ...

Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Simferopol and Crimea, who is considered the main candidate for the Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch in the event of the death of the current head of the Russian ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew leads the official door-opening ceremony of lower Manhattan’s St ...

The date of Easter and its related holidays also depend on if you’re Eastern Orthodox or not ... full moon after the spring equinox. “While Christmas is fixed to a solar calendar (and near ...

“So the first thing that we’re doing … you’ve got to be at the Kennedy Center in December, because we are doing a big, huge celebration of the birth of Christ at Christmas. How crazy is it ...