One of the most important shifts in history was the spread of Christianity by the Greeks from the Byzantine Empire into ...

EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCHES. There are many parallels between the beliefs ... In 15 years this Russian Orthodox church grew from a simple frame structure on Literary Rd. at W. 6th St. to the ST.

Eastern Orthodox — as opposed to ... This decentralized power structure makes them hard to deal with ecumenically. The Catholic Church, in contrast, is a papal monarchy able to act from a ...

when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept the older Julian one. Moreover, each church uses its own ecclesiastical calculations for lunar cycles ...