But as the years go by, the calendars used by churches — the Gregorian calendar by Western Catholics and Protestants and the Julian calendar by Eastern Orthodox churches — continue to diverge.

attributed the recent growth in Orthodox churches to "religious traditions" that date back to the great schism of 1054 that marked the separation between the Eastern Orthodox Church in then ...

Most Eastern Christians in union with Rome use the Gregorian calendar, he noted; tensions between Orthodox Churches caused by the Ukraine War, in fact, led both the Ruthenians in Europe and the ...

But it's not always the same day. Typically, the Catholic and Protestant churches dominant in the U.S. mark Easter days or even months ahead of Eastern Orthodox Christians, whose Easter is also ...

when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept the older Julian one. Get top local stories delivered to you every morning with NBC DFW's News ...

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 ...

Catholic churches across eastern Oklahoma gathered together to hold Mass and pray for the College of Cardinals ahead of the ...

“I would also hope that he finds Christ not only in the Eucharist but also in other churches, including the Eastern Orthodox. Such a vision, I pray, would arise not merely from obligation but ...

Orthodox Christians ... Why do Western churches — especially the Catholic Church and Protestant churches — celebrate Easter on different dates than the Eastern churches? To understand why ...