During this time great churches and monasteries were endowed—particularly the Mileševo (c. 1235), Peć (1250), Morača (1252), Sopoćani (c. 1260), Dečani (1327), and Gračanica (1321) monasteries. Those sites have subsequently come to constitute important symbolic monuments for ...
There were always a few back in the Nineties – churches and Russians – but now there are lots. The biggest church, not just in Sharjah but in all the UAE, is the Russian Orthodox, Sharjah’s Russian Orthodox Church of St Philip the Apostle in the Al-Yarmouk area of town, on land...
Saint Helen journeyed to the holy places connected with the earthly life of the Savior, building more than 80 churches, at Bethlehem the birthplace of Christ, and on the Mount of Olives where the Lord ascended to Heaven, and at Gethsemane where the Savior prayed before His sufferings, and wh...
The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has approved the introduction of "Byzantine practice" in churches, and the dioceses themselves will autonomously make decisions on the acceptance and introduction of these practices. Kedu Oliviana-Pandan ...
which is the principal group within the Orthodox Church, recognises the Patriarch of Constantinople as its nominal head, and the national churches of Russia, Greece, Romania and the Ukraine are in communion with it, as are a number of other self governing churches in the Near and Middle East...
In 1765, Saint Tikhon transformed the Voronezh Slavic-Latin school into a seminary. He invited experienced instructors from Kiev and Kharkhov, and planned the courses for it. He exerted much attention and effort to build up both the churches and the school, and to guide pastors to understand...
wise in those things pertaining to Christ, the Church is not only one but also unique. Just as the Lord Christ cannot have several bodies, so He cannot have several Churches. According to her theanthropic nature, the Church is one and unique, just as Christ the God-man is one and uniqu...
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Icons have been often described as a method of teaching about theology, Christ’s life and His Saints to the illiterate. In centuries past – and it seems for most of human history – the majority of people could not read or write and so Christian churches were decorated with Biblical image...
“For centuries we have lived like strangers, where as a common baptism made us all the children of God,” he said. “May this day mark the beginning of a road, which with God's help may lead us to the day when our churches can be reunited.” ...