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Details emerge, questions persist after British bishop’s court appearance on child rape charges

Orthodox Church

Estonia Monastery Bishop Damaskinos, centre left, prays during the Divine Liturgy in the chapel of the newly founded Kirikla Orthodox Monastery in Pihali village, Estonia, on July 4, 2026. (Credit: Sergei Grits/AP.)

Orthodox monks are the first to live and pray at a monastery in Estonia for 80 years

Jul 24
Kostya Manenkov

Priests bless believers and their Easter baskets to mark Orthodox Easter, in Pyrohiv, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, April 12, 2026. (Credit: Efrem Lukatsky/AP.)

Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of violating Putin’s Easter ceasefire

Apr 13
Derek Gatopoulos,
Vasilisa Stepanenko, Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on April 9, 2026. (Credit: Sputnik via AP.)

Russia’s Putin declares a ceasefire in Ukraine for Orthodox Easter

Apr 10
Associated Press

Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate, conducts a service at St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. (Credit: Efrem Lukatsky/AP.)

Patriarch Filaret, who fought for an independent Ukrainian Orthodox church, dies at 97

Mar 22
Peter Smith

Georgia’s Patriarch Ilia II, the longtime head of the Georgian Orthodox Church at the welcoming ceremony for Pope Francis in Tbilisi, Georgia, on Sep. 30, 2016. (Credit: Ivan Sekretarev/AP.)

Georgian Orthodox Patriarch Ilia II, hailed as an ‘epochal figure,’ dies at 93

Mar 18
Associated Press

A Christian Orthodox clergy stands in one of the corridors of the Christian Orthodox Halki Theological school, at the Holy Trinity monastery, in Heybeliada island, Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (Credit: Francisco Seco/AP.)

Optimism ahead of pope’s visit to Turkey for reopening of Istanbul’s Greek Orthodox seminary

Nov 24, 2025
Suzan Fraser,
Ayse Wieting, Associated Press

Pope Leo XIV poses with pilgrims on an ecumenical Orthodox-Catholic pilgrimage led by Cardinal Joseph Tobin (l) and Metropolitan Elpidophoros (r) in Castel Gandolfo in Italy on July 17, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.)

Pope Leo calls for ‘path to unity’ in meeting Orthodox and Catholic pilgrims from the U.S.

Jul 17, 2025
Charles Collins

Cyprus Church leader Archbishop Chrysostomos II laid to rest

Nov 14, 2022
Menelaos Hadjicostis

Cyprus’ Greek Orthodox Archbishop Chrysostomos II dies at 81

Nov 7, 2022
Menelaos Hadjicostis

Greek monastery manuscripts tell new story of Ottoman rule

Oct 21, 2022
Costas Kantouris

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