(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, marking ...

Archbishop Anastasios, head of the Orthodox Church of Albania, died at a hospital in Athens at the age of 95 on Saturday, the church announced.

provides a tour of and primer on the Orthodox Church in her new book ... “Why has the indigenous Christian faith of Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe changed so little over the centuries?

Under Archbishop Anastasios Yannoulatos’ leadership, after the fall of communism, more than 400 parishes were reopened and ...

Anastasios played a key role in reviving the church in Albania, an independent branch of the Eastern Orthodox Church ... missionary in several countries in Africa and was well known for his ...