As clergy and faithful present proclaimed “Axios! Axios! Axios!” (Greek for “He is worthy”), Fr. Artur Bubnevych was ...

BYZANTINE. The largest of these eastern rites ... Today there exists in Egypt the Coptic rite which is Orthodox and the Coptic rite that is loyal to the Bishop of Rome. The Ge'ez rite based ...

The Gospels of Matthew and Luke offer many details describing this event. On Dec. 26, the Byzantine rite celebrates a minor feast [Synaxis] for Mary, the mother of the one whose birth was celebrated ...

A Church sui iuiris is a distinct community of faithful within a rite of the Church ... two Chaldean and 14 Byzantine. Information on each of these sui iuris Churches as well as a link when ...

Msgr. Stephan Lipke received episcopal consecration as the new Auxiliary Bishop of the vast diocese of Novosibirsk. Born in Germany, a Jesuit by vocational choice, in Russia motivated by missionary ...

Nine villages in southern Italy known as La Grecia Salentina have maintained aspects of the Greek language and culture for ...