But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIII’s adaptation in 1582, when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept the ...

Lent is underway in the Christian world, although it mainly impacts monks and restaurant owners, who quickly devise Lenten ...

The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic observances overlap only every three to four years thanks to different church calendars — and different lunar cycle calculations.

He told DW how it strengthens "the will to continue on the path toward church unity." Grigorije is one of the four Orthodox bishops in Germany, who spoke to DW on the subject. The Full Moon and the ...

Eastern Orthodox churches use the older Julian calendar, established by Julius Caesar. In 325 A.D., more than 300 bishops representing different factions of the Christian church met in what is now ...

But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIII’s adaptation in 1582, when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept ...