“Entering the [Russian-speaking] Orthodox churches of the Moscow Patriarchate, they asked which patriarchate they belonged to, and were told that this was the ‘Lithuanian Orthodox Church ...

The two-day glorification ceremony for Olga "Arrsamquq" Michael, known as Matushka Olga, brought together those drawn to her ...

Since then, Bartholomew has lent his support to other Orthodox parishes seeking to exit from the Russian Church, such as those in Lithuania, and brought them under his wing.

Metropolitan Chrysostomos, who headed of the Vilnius-Lithuania Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1990 to 2010, died on 6 January aged 90.

Somehow the Lithuanian language survived; today it is thriving. Yet Russia’s presence is palpable, and with the invasion of ...

Rabbi Itzhak Silman of Yanovo, well-known Orthodox leader of Lithuania, died here today. Rabbi Silman was about fifty years old. He was known as one of the most learned rabbis and active Jewish ...

In the Baltics, Catholicism (Lithuania) ... In October 2023, the Russian Orthodox Church’s leading cleric in Bulgaria was expelled from the country on accusations of espionage, ...

In other countries where local Orthodox churches are considered subservient to Moscow, there have been tangible efforts to weaken ties with the Russian church. In the Baltics, Lithuanian and ...