Nykodym (born Volodymyr Kobzar), who previously served as Archbishop of Sumy and Okhtyrka, was elected after the death of ...

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church said Friday its former head, Patriarch Filaret, who was excommunicated by Moscow for breaking ...

St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Olyphant held the traditional Forgiveness Dinner on Cheese Fare Sunday before the season of Lent.

Filaret led a movement in Ukraine that created a schism among Orthodox believers and, ultimately, a church independent of Moscow.

One of Sandra Wyslutsky’s fondest childhood memories is going to S.S. Peter & Paul Orthodox Church with her mother, Anna, to ...

Orthodox Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv has died at 97. He is remembered for his work to establish an independent Ukrainian Orthodox church that was free from Moscow’s religious authority.

The Russian Orthodox Church is slowly but surely gaining a foothold in Africa. Experts say Russia is using its expansion as a ...

Filaret Denysenko co-founded the unrecognized Kyiv Patriarchate in 1992 and was the patriarch of Ukraine from 1995 to 2018.

FILE - Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, center, delivers the Christmas service in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Friday. While much of the world has Christmas in the rearview ...

Hundreds of parishioners and friends of St. George Orthodox Christian Church gathered Saturday morning in Washington City for the raising of a dome over the church building, near the intersection ...

Clergy inside St. Peter and St. Paul Russian Orthodox Church. Left to right: Archbishop John Garklavs (Chicago), an unknown man, and Fr. Hillary Madison, August 1968. Used with the permission of St.