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e. The Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church have been in a state of official schism from one another since the East–West Schism of 1054. This schism was caused by historical and language differences, and the ensuing theological differences between the Western and Eastern churches. The main theological differences with the Catholic ...
Saint Nicholas of Myra [a] (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), [3] [4] [b] also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia (in modern-day Antalya Province, Turkey) during the time of the Roman Empire. [7] [8] Because of the many miracles attributed to his ...
The current mission of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America is to "bring Orthodoxy to America". Its Department of Missions and Evangelism was chaired by Peter Gillquist who led the mass conversion of the Evangelical Orthodox Church to Eastern Orthodoxy. Gillquist died in July 2012. () The current chairman is John Finley.
As a result of the Ottoman conquest of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, and the Fall of Constantinople, the entire Orthodox communion of the Balkans and the Near East became suddenly isolated from the West. The Russian Orthodox Church was the only part of the Orthodox communion which remained outside the control of the Ottoman Empire.
Coordinates: 32.819514°N 96.803778°W. Saint Seraphim Cathedral. Saint Seraphim Cathedral, is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral located in the Oak Lawn neighborhood of Dallas, Texas. It is the episcopal seat of the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of the South, sharing its status with Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Miami Lakes, Florida.
The present Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch is John X (Yazigi), who presided over the Archdiocese of Western and Central Europe (2008–2013). He was elected as primate of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East as John X of Antioch (Yazigi) on December 17, 2012.
Eastern Orthodox Church. A memorial service ( Greek: μνημόσυνον, mnemósynon, "memorial"; [1] Slavonic: панихида, panikhída, from Greek παννυχίς, pannychis, "vigil"; [2] [3] Romanian: parastas and Serbian парастос, parastos, from Greek παράστασις, parástasis) [4] is a liturgical solemn service for ...
