Olga Michael, a Yup'ik woman from a remote Alaska Native village, has been declared the first female Orthodox saint from North America, honoured for her compassion, humility, and lifelong service to ...

But the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest communion in Eastern Orthodoxy, has stayed on the old calendar, observing Christmas on Jan. 7 on the new calendar, as have Serbian, Georgian and some ...

In May 2022, clergy within Ukraine's Moscow-aligned Orthodox church circulated a resolution that would have led to a complete divorce from Russia and its influence.

The ST.SAVA SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH CONTROVERSY (1963-75) over control of church property and control by a hierarchical form of church government split Cleveland's SERBIAN community. An administrative ...