John XXIII, who was elected Pope in 1958, called an ecumenical council, only the twenty-first in the nearly two-thousand-year history of the Church ... in the company of Orthodox Christians ...

Here’s how it works: The pope is the successor of the Apostle Peter, the head of the college of bishops, the Vicar of Christ and the pastor of the universal Catholic Church on Earth, according ...

Albania’s Orthodox Church has elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of communism in 1990 ...

OMORO - Pope and ... excitement as bishops and priests immediately surrounded him, donning with traditional Orthodox vestments. Standing approximately 70 meters away from the church, the Pope ...

The latest medical reports on 88-year-old Pope Francis, who has been hospitalized ... further cemented his image as a faithful and orthodox Church leader. In July 2022, the influential French ...

As the early Church grew and spread, it celebrated the sacraments as would be best understood ... LATIN. The Pope has several titles. He is the Bishop of Rome, Vicar of the universal Church ...

And there are no specific norms outlining what happens to the leadership of the Catholic Church ... for when a bishop gets sick and can’t run his diocese, but none for a pope.

The pope is the successor of the Apostle Peter, the head of the college of bishops, the Vicar of Christ and the pastor of the universal Catholic Church on Earth, according to the church’s in ...

And there are no specific norms outlining what happens to the leadership of the Catholic Church ... for when a bishop gets sick and can’t run his diocese, but none for a pope.

Here's how it works: The pope is the successor of the Apostle Peter, the head of the college of bishops, the Vicar of Christ and the pastor of the universal Catholic Church on Earth, according to ...

And there are no specific norms outlining what happens to the leadership of the Catholic Church if ... for when a bishop gets sick and can't run his diocese, but none for a pope.