Saint Dionysius the Areopagite, the patron saint of the city of Athens, is also known as the protector of judges and the judiciary. The Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast Day of Saint Dionysius on October 3rd.
Born during the...
The Cyrillic alphabet, the script famously used by Russians (and others), is one of the world's most widely used systems of writing.
The connection of this historic alphabet to the Greek language is profound and goes back centuries. The Cyrillic...
The Church of Saint Nicholas, a magnificent church in Ermoupoli, the capital of Syros, took twenty-two years to build.
Overlooking the Cycladic island, Saint Nicholas' construction began in 1848, following the designs of a Greek architect named G. Metaxas. They...
A group of American Church leaders have warned that President Donald Trump’s release of UFO files could shatter Christian beliefs, according to the Daily Mail.
They have claimed that US intelligence officials have held a series of meetings with them...
Despite relative obscurity in Western historiography, Byzantine architecture has had a profound influence across the world. The Byzantines, more accurately known as the Eastern Romans, developed a distinctive architectural style that has continued to influence construction to this day.
Not...
The Hagia Sophia, the timeless architectural marvel of Christianity and the Eastern Roman Empire in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey), is renowned around the world for its exceptionally beautiful and stunning Byzantine mosaics, among many other things.
These spectacular mosaics have...
Pope Zachary (Zacharias in Greek and Latin) was the last ethnically Greek pope, serving as the head of the Roman Church. Zachary reigned from 741 to 752 AD during a tumultuous period of change and uncertainty in papal history.
Despite...
Imagine being a Byzantine Emperor, having absolute power, enjoying Constantinople’s most beautiful treasures, armies at your fingertips and all of a sudden, deciding to abandon everything to become a monk.
Now, imagine trading all that for a life of quiet...
The Ecumenical Patriarchate, the spiritual center of the Eastern Orthodox Church based in modern-day Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), has officially canonized two Mount Athos monks as saints: St. Hadji-Georgis the Athonite and St. Tikhon the Athonite.
Mount Athos, a monastic peninsula...
