the Orthodox Christian archbishop of Athens and head of the Greek Orthodox Church, and made a night-time visit to the Parthenon. “History makes its weight felt, and here, today, I feel the need ...

The Epitaphio (the symbolic funeral bier of Christ) during a Good Friday at Greek Orthodox Church of St. Athanasios at Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, April, 2015 Source: AAP Similarities greater than ...

Panagia Vefa, an Orthodox Church where people of all faiths go to make a wish. Video screenshot. Noah Amir Arjomand/You Tube Panagia Vefa is a Greek Orthodox church in Istanbul where, on the first day ...

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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Tens of thousands of Greek Australians filed churches across the country this Good Friday to observe the solemn procession of the Epitaphios, one of the most sacred traditions of Orthodox Holy Week.

For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine ... (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Greek Catholic believers and foreigners who live in Greece attend the ...

estimated by Greek Reporter. The reason lies in the Orthodox Church’s continued use of the Julian calendar and Metonic cycle, while Western Christians follow the Gregorian calendar, which was ...

From the city of Yekaterinburg in Russia, Lovskiy’s wife, three children, and six grandchildren are all Russian Orthodox. His youngest son is a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church. “ ...

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 ...