Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, is a Greek name, too, deriving from the Greek phrase "Is tin poli," meaning "to the city." ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican, one day after he attended the papal inauguration ...

The Russian Orthodox Church is by far the biggest of the churches in the Eastern Orthodox communion, which split with Western Christianity in the Great Schism of 1054. According to the Kyiv ...

Pope Leo IX, born Bruno of Egisheim in France, was pope from 1049 to 1054. He was the 152nd pope ... His papacy saw the beginning of the Great Schism, which separated the Catholic Church and ...

The Church split in 1054 A.D. in the great schism, with what became the Eastern ... born in Rome but of North African origin, from 492 to 496 AD. There were three African popes in early church ...