Yet, humanly speaking, it is hard not to point to the wreck of 1995 when hoping to understand how three members of Luxury are now Eastern Orthodox priests (the other two members are an ordained ...

Liturgies continued to be performed in the languages of the first-generation immigrants, and priests were generally born and educated in the Old World. The tradition of autonomy was observed among ...

(RNS) — On Thursday (May 2), the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa ordained in Zimbabwe the first deaconess of any patriarchate in the global Eastern Orthodox Church ...

The priests were stripped of their authority ... known as the Moldovan Orthodox Church -- after they joined an Eastern Orthodox rival that is subordinate to the Romanian Orthodox Church.

But for Eastern Orthodox Christians ... anointed with holy oil during what's called the Holy Unction service. The priest takes a cotton swab with holy oil on the tip and makes the sign of the ...

McPherson was raised in California before entering the Eastern Orthodox community in 2007 and starting at Holy Mother in 2020. The priest and other Orthodox leaders in Texas and throughout the U.S ...

It is among approximately 10-12 Eastern Orthodox churches in the Valley where parishioners will celebrate Easter this weekend. The church’s priest, Father Mikel Bock, said the date difference ...