Archbishop: the Most Reverend (Most Rev.); addressed as Your Grace rather than His Excellency or Your Excellency.

: a dignitary in an Eastern church ranking below a bishop specifically : the superior of a large monastery or group of monasteries.

Write “Your Excellency,” if the letter is of a formal nature and write “Dear Archbishop (surname),” if it’s a little more informal. When writing a letter to a cardinal who is also an archbishop, write “Your Eminence,” “Most Eminent Cardinal,” or “My Lord Cardinal,” as the salutation.

Modern usage. The Eastern Orthodox Church often refers to presbyters in English as priests (priest is etymologically derived from the Greek presbyteros via the Latin presbyter). In this context, a priest’s first name is generally used after the word Father.

The Orthodox Easter always falls later than the Catholic one as it is calculated using the same formula, but using the Julian Calendar (as we said above, this is currently 13 days behind the commonly used Gregorian). So Orthodox Easter can be anywhere between one and four weeks after Catholic Easter.

From Greek Pascha. The festival that early Christians celebrated was called in Greek Πάσχα (Pascha), a transliteration of the Aramaic word פסחא, cognate to Hebrew פֶּסַח (Pesach). The very day is also called Wielka Niedziela, ie. ‘the Great Sunday’. In Old English the form Pascan was used by Byrhtferth (c.

Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day after his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD.

Last Supper is regarded as the Paschal meal or the story of the Cruci. fixion is told in such a manner as to suggest the Feast had already. begun. The afternoon of the Crucifixion is merely described as. Paraskeue, i. e. the time before the Sabbath (προσάββατον, Mk.