The Fourth Crusade left three terrible legacies: a deepening religious split between the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic ...

For example, there are 22 eastern Churches sui iuris, made up of two Alexandrian, three Antiochene, one Armenian, two Chaldean and 14 Byzantine. Information on each of these sui iuris Churches as ...

The sole, surviving portrait of the last emperor of the Byzantine Empire Constantine Palaiologos was discovered during restorations in Greece ...

It is worth remembering, moreover, that the Orthodox Church went through an intense struggle, during that period of Byzantine history ... the meaning of the word “image” or “icon.” In Greek, these ...

The Catholic Encyclopedia ... if not identical liturgy. The churches using the Byzantine liturgy include the Albanian, Belarussian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Hungarian, Italo-Albanian, Melkite ...

Once known as the Chora Church, the site spent ... interpreting the feelings of all Greek women and men, for the completely ...

With a large majority of Greek Catholic parishes in Slovakia observing the Gregorian calendar, most Byzantine Christians in the country are due to celebrate 'Rozhdestvo Isusa Christa' ('Nativity of ...