Orthodox Topics Hub

The papacy, the filioque, purgatory, fasting and practice — the real differences.

The meaning of 'Orthodox' — right belief, right glory, and how the name came to be.

What Orthodoxy teaches about the departed, prayer for the dead, and the toll houses.

An overview of Orthodox Christianity: councils, sacraments, and liturgical life.

The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese — history and parish life in America.

Every feast and fast of 2026 with Julian and Gregorian dates.

The full 2027 liturgical year, Pascha date and the four great fasts.

Looking ahead: the 2028 Orthodox calendar and Pascha.

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 2026 Orthodox fasting calendar — Great Lent, Apostles, Dormition, Nativity.

August 1–14 — daily rules, allowed foods, Transfiguration, and the Dormition on August 15.

Looking ahead to 2027: Pascha date, Great Lent and all four fasting seasons.

The date of Pascha in 2027, the Great Fast, and why it differs from Western Easter.

The Small and Great Paraklesis to the Theotokos — structure, when served, praying it at home.

Full Orthodox text of the Symbol of Faith and the filioque question.

Chotki and komboskini — knots, lengths, and praying the Jesus Prayer.

Why the Latin rosary is not Orthodox practice, and what is prayed instead.

The eight-pointed cross: titulus, crossbeam, and the slanted footrest.

Four equal arms, IC XC NIKA, and the cross-in-square church plan.

The Church of Antioch that still prays in Aramaic — rite, fasts and calendar.

Not Eastern Orthodox — how to tell the two apart at a glance.

US jurisdictions, your first Divine Liturgy, and what to expect as a visitor.

The Coptic wrist cross, Leviticus 19:28, and the pastoral answer.

Two separate religions sharing one adjective — and where Hasidic Judaism fits.

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 — life, Nicaea, the relics at Corfu and the feast on December 12.

The Newrome Press Orthodox Bible — Septuagint Old Testament and Byzantine-text New Testament.

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.

St Sava, the family Slava, the Julian calendar and Serbian parishes in Australia.

The Ohrid Archbishopric, its 2022 restoration of communion, and the Australian diaspora.

Yes — but before ordination. Married clergy, celibate bishops, and widowed priests.

The Trisagion, the funeral, koliva, and the memorials at forty days and one year.

Greek Orthodox name days — dates for Maria, Yiannis, Giorgos, Katerina and more.

The Holy Mountain: twenty monasteries, Byzantine hours, the avaton and the diamonitirion.

Theotokos, 'God-bearer' — Ephesus 431, veneration, and her feasts through the year.

Searchable directory of Orthodox parishes in every Australian state and territory.

January 7 or December 25? The two calendars, the Nativity Fast and the services.

The Dormition of the Theotokos — the summer Pascha, its fast and its lamentations.

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me — hesychasm and the prayer rope.

Metropolises, the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and the Metropolis of Toronto in Canada.

Scripture and Tradition, sola fide, the sacraments, icons and the saints.

The Trinity, the Incarnation, theosis, the sacraments and the seven Councils.

Today's Epistle and Gospel, the Paschal lectionary cycles and the Lenten paremias.

Deacon, presbyter, bishop — vestments, titles, marriage and pastoral life.

Searchable directory of Orthodox parishes in every Canadian province.