Although the Latin holds the chief place among the liturgical languages in which the Mass is celebrated and the praise of God recited in the Divine Offices, yet the Slavonic language comes next to it ...

Prof. Julia Verkholantsev, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania, discussed how St. Jerome — a scholar who came from Dalmatia and lived from the mid 300s to the early 400s — ...

* * * Church Slavonic is a rich and vibrant part of our Orthodox heritage. This liturgical language is not simply a remnant of our Orthodox past but part of the very fabric of our communal worship of ...

Henry Leeming, Slavist: born Manchester 6 January 1920; Lecturer, then Reader, in Comparative Slavonic Philology, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London University 1955-85 (Reader ...

As you may probably know, Bulgaria is the only country in the European Union that uses the Cyrillic alphabet. Our entry into the EU in 2007 made Cyrillic the third official alphabet in the EU after ...

About 46 million people in the European Union speak languages that are not majority tongues in their countries, ranging from Swedish speakers in Finland to users of Sorbic, a Slavonic language spoken ...

Saint Methodius, Equal of the Apostles, and Enlightener of the Slavs, came from an illustrious and pious family living in the Greek city of Thessalonica. Saint Methodius was the oldest of seven ...

When William Morfill died at what is now 42 Park Town, Oxford, on November 9, 1909, he left a remarkable legacy that is probably not fully appreciated. A keen linguist from his schooldays, his ...