The history and characteristics of the unique surviving portrait of the last byzantine emperor, Constantine Palaiologos, ...

The Byzantine imperial court celebrated Christmas with ceremonies and feasts in the capital of Constantinople.

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly ... who then carry them around the church while following an ...

Some of the facts about the "Saint Nicholas and Scenes From His Life" are also unknown at present, but Willson said it is definitely by a class of artists from the Old Believers or Old Ritualists, of ...

Your browser does not support the video tag. Changing your app icons on Android is easy, but it is also a non-intuitive process. But if you wish to maximize your ...

[4] Lebanon has the second highest proportion of Christians of any Middle Eastern country (after Cyprus), [5] estimated to be between 37% and 43%; Egypt and Syria are next, at roughly 10%. Lebanese ...

Manuel, emperor of the Byzantine Empire, was an Eastern Orthodox Christian, loyal to the Patriarch of Constantinople; Henry, king of the English, was a Roman Catholic, loyal to the pope in Rome. How ...

The patriarchate has had its seat in Constantinople, today's Istanbul, since the time of the Greek Orthodox Byzantine Empire. In Jerusalem on Saturday, thousands worshipped peacefully at the Church of ...

A Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning and left his wife and three children to go to Eastern Europe is in police custody, online records show. Ryan Borgwardt, 45, was booked into the Green ...

The Third Council of Constantinople was the sixth of the seven Ecumenical Councils of the early Christian church. The Third ...