Eastern Orthodox Churches are self-governing bodies of Christians adhering to a pure and unbroken line from the first days of the Apostles and the disciples of Jesus. Originally in communion with the ...
But the Orthodox Church disagreed. During the Great Schism of 1054, it had split into its own arm of Christianity after centuries of mounting political and doctrinal difference. Orthodox ...
The Synod of Russian Orthodox Church made the decision to completely break off the relations with Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in response to it's process of granting autocephaly ...
The row is being described as the greatest Orthodox split since the schism with Catholicism in 1054. Relations soured after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. Many Ukrainians accuse the ...
Canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which reports to Moscow ... of Constantinople if the latter legitimized the Ukrainian schism. On Friday, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church ruled ...
Francis is likely to use the occasion — the anniversary of a council before the Great Schism of 1054, which divided the church between East and West — to once again reach out to Orthodox ...