While Saint Patrick is often credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland, historical evidence tells a different story. Decades before Patrick’s mission, a bishop named Palladius was sent by the ...

Father Doug Papulis gives communion to Weston Haldeman, who goes by Weston Adam, at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in the ...

The Holy See is the universal government of the Catholic Church, which is its own sovereign ... Others, deep in thought, gaze at St. Peter’s Basilica as Cardinal Mauro Gambetti leads the rosary ...

The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic observances overlap only every three to four years thanks to different church ...

One Auckland church is conducting a year’s worth of baptisms in one day. Religion expert Emeritus Professor Peter Lineham said St Patrick’s Cathedral in central Auckland was expecting 350 ...

Easter Sunday services will not go on as planned at Saint Edmund Church in Queens, following a fire on Saturday afternoon. Video shows heavy smoke and flames shooting out of the beloved Breezy ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...

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His youngest son is a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church ... The priest, who is an assistant at St. Patrick’s in Sutherland, a suburb of Sydney, will meet his extended Greek family ...

But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIII’s adaptation in 1582, when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept ...

Ms Pepper follows the traditions of the Greek Orthodox Church, while her husband Shane was raised Irish Catholic. "The kids had the benefit of two different cultures, which I think is really ...

A lightning strike may have been the cause of a steeple fire at a historic church in St. Paul on Thursday, the fire department said. The fire didn’t extend into the church in Frogtown and no ...