Gateways and Official Websites

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Official Websites -- Catholic

The Vatican. A gorgeous site.

Official Websites -- Orthodox

Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

Greek Orthodox Ardiocese of America.

Russian Orthodox Church.

The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.

Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania.

Ecumenical Organizations

World Council of Churches. Catholics are not members. Most Orthodox are.

National Council of Churches.

Gateways -- Catholic

Catholic Information Network. Major source of Catholic information.

The Catholic Encyclopedia. Published in 1917, the Catholic Encyclopedia is a wide-ranging and impressive compendium of accessible, scholarly articles on topics of interest to Catholics. Nicely transferred from paper format. It has articles on a wide-variety of relevant topics, such as "The Orthodox Church" by Adrian Fortescue.

Byzantine Catholic Church in America. Comprehensive and nicely designed array of links to news, documents, message boards, parishes and so forth.

Apologia: a Catholic page for Protestants and Eastern Orthodox.

Gateways -- Orthodox

Orthodox Christian Resources on the Internet. Elegant and useful megasite, strong on links to organizations. Includes a comprehensive set of email groups.

Introduction to the Orthodox Church by Rev. Leonidas Contos, Ph.D. (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America).

Web Archive: Nicene.com. Nicely organized and described Orthodox links. Has a pro-ecumenism page.

St. Pachomius Library. Orthodox literature.

The Orthodox Church. Nicely-ordered set of links by Nicholas and Nina Chapman.

Web Archive: History of the Orthodox Church . I haven't plowed through it, but it comes highly recommended.