Specifically, for the past four months, he’s spent long hours 65 feet above the altar in St. John the ... at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church. The icons are not worshipped, but rather ...

St. John died in a building behind the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The room where he died is a chapel now, with a new stained-glass window.

For bishops and archbishops, the liturgical clothes for a funeral include the alb, a white tunic held by a traditional cord ...

Altar erected over the place of the crucifixion of Jesus ... biblical scenes and religious figures. These icons follow the Eastern Orthodox tradition and create an atmosphere of reverence and ...

and together with Serge were among the founders of St. Gregory the Theologian Orthodox Church in Wappingers Falls, serving as President of the Altar Society, and spearheading numerous fundraisers ...

The new Pope is Robert Prevost, who will be known as Pope Leo XIV - the first American pontiff to be elected leader of the ...

The top of its altar had been broken, and shelling had punched holes in its stone walls and in the blue dome over the sanctuary, scattering debris across the wooden pews. Many of its icons were ...

Saint Catherine’s Monastery was the place where God spoke to Prophet Moses and manifested to him on the mountain.

Solovkii’s monastery was showing an exhibition of icons revering the Russian Orthodox Church’s newest saints: the murdered Tsar Nicholas II and his family. On the site of their bloody execution in the ...