Disagreements as to when to officially recognize the birth of Jesus Christ stretch ... world adopted it. But the Orthodox Church disagreed. During the Great Schism of 1054, it had split into ...

Eastern Orthodox Churches are self-governing ... days of the Apostles and the disciples of Jesus. Originally in communion with the Church of Rome, the churches of East and West were divided by the ...

MOSCOW, November 21 /TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Church made a last-minute decision to stay away from the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, which took place on Crete, Greece ...

KARLOVY VARY, January 28. /TASS/. The hierarchs of the Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church are standing against the schism in Ukraine and express their support for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of ...

It predates the Chalcedonian Schism — which separated the Oriental Orthodox communion from Rome — by more than 100 years and predates the Great Schism ... essential: in Jesus we can ...