Even in the heat of a scorching Saturday afternoon sun, worshippers at Sandy’s newly completed St. Anna Greek Orthodox Church came out to witness a historic moment for their Utah parish. They were ...

The bells of Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church rang out as His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America stepped inside the Reading church. The archbishop, spiritual leader of all ...

This circa 1975 photo provided by her family shows Olga Michael, an Alaskan Yup’ik woman who became St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska. (Martha Nicolai) KWETHLUK, Alaska — “St. Olga of ...

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, the spiritual leader of all the Greek Orthodox churches in North America, will visit Reading to deliver the keynote address at the 2023 Metropolis of ...

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Most churches in the United States navigated the patchwork of COVID-19 restrictions on public gatherings by periodically closing their doors and broadcasting services online instead. But for almost ...

Archbishop Elpidophoros of America became a US citizen, pledging renewed service to faith, community, and country.

Elpidophoros Lambriniadis was enthroned as archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America on June 22 at the Cathe­dral of the Holy Trinity in New York City. The 51-year-old archbishop was the ...

Priests who fail to report abuse learned in confession could face up to 364 days in jail and a $5,000 fine. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court, claims the state’s law violates the First and ...

(RNS) — In September Patriarch Bartholomew I, the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, will travel from Istanbul to the United States to collect his Templeton Prize. In his 34 years on the throne ...

Ben Christenson was raised Anglican — church every Sunday, a religious school, and Christian camp every summer. But ...

One morning in October of 2023, Miami police were called to remove a “squatter” who had, or so the ecclesiastical complainants claimed, taken up illegal residence in one of South Florida’s oldest ...