Orthodox Topics Hub

The Apostles' Fast (Peter & Paul Fast) — start and end dates, allowed foods, weekly rules.

Pentecost date, all-night vigil, Trinity Sunday and the Kneeling Prayers.

Full 1970 Orthodox fasting calendar — Great Lent, Apostles, Dormition, Nativity.

1971 fasts, Pascha date, all four great fasts with meal rules.

Archangel Gabriel — feast days, the Annunciation, and the akathist to the Bodiless Powers.

Daily lives of the saints — how commemorations are structured in the Orthodox calendar.

Orthodox icons — theology, veneration, and where they appear in the liturgical year.

Saint Spyridon of Trimythous — akathist and commemoration on December 12.

Apostle Andrew the First-Called — akathist, feast, and the Andreas Cross.

Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker — akathist, December 6 commemoration.

Full text of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed as used in Orthodox worship.

Morning & evening prayers, akathists, and the daily rule of prayer.

The rule of Orthodox morning prayers with troparia and akathist selections.

The Jesus Prayer, prayer rope, and hesychastic tradition.

The Orthodox Study Bible — Septuagint Old Testament and NKJV New Testament.

Chotki / komboskini — how the prayer rope is used with the Jesus Prayer.

Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church — Ge'ez rite, unique fasts, 81-book canon.

Ukrainian Orthodox Church — jurisdiction, autocephaly, liturgical life.

The OCA — autocephalous Orthodox Church in America, English-language liturgy.

GOARCH — Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, Ecumenical Patriarchate.

Oriental Orthodox family — Coptic, Ethiopian, Syriac, Armenian, Eritrean, Malankara.

Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and ROCOR — parishes and Slavonic liturgical tradition.

Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria — Pope Tawadros II, unique fasts and rites.

How Orthodox parishes are organised across jurisdictions in the United States.

The Orthodox marriage rite: crowning, betrothal, common cup.

Orthodox monasticism — Athonite tradition, hesychasm, and modern monasteries.

The Orthodox priesthood — orders, vestments, and pastoral life.

The life of the Orthodox monk — rassa, prayer rule, obedience.