Houston’s Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, one of the largest Greek Orthodox communities in the nation, expects to ...

The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America. Hundreds of pilgrims joined several bishops in ...

The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...

An icon venerated at the Chapel of Our Lady of Damascus in Birgu has been confirmed to be much older than previously believed ...

The humble Yup’ik mother and midwife known as Matushka Olga is now officially a saint in the Orthodox church, after a ...

Make the most of this weekend with these events set to take place in Bay, Saginaw, and Flint counties from Friday, June 13, to Sunday, June 15.

Byzantine art has been the subject of serious study in universities only since the 1940s. But there’s been a recent resurgence in interest: from the Met’s seminal Africa & Byzantium that showcased ...

Ukrainian artist Vladimir Grygorenko pauses while painting an iconic representation of the ascension of Christ in the cupola of St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church in Euless, Texas, on March 6, 2025.

Today, if you visit the Byzantine Museum in Athens or certain Eastern Orthodox churches, particularly in Greece and Russia, you might still find the dog-headed Christopher icons gazing back at you ...

How icons are made. Iconographer Elias Katsaros doesn't actually paint the icons directly onto the wall. It's more like wallpaper, the Rev. Peter Pier of St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox ...

Additionally, the stunning golden mosaics of the church represent the best of Byzantine art that survived and passed on to Italy from Byzantine lands. The Byzantine tradition of icon painting proved ...