In pictures: Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter

Archimandrite Partenie attends Orthodox Easter service at St. John the Baptist Monastery near Mavroro as the service is streamed online.

Deacons swing incense censers during the Easter Vigil at the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Savvas in the old walled city of the Cypriot capital Nicosia

Orthodox monks attend Orthodox Easter service at St. John the Baptist Monastery near Mavroro.

Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, background center, conducts the church’s main service celebrating Orthodox Easter at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia.

Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, center, conducts the church’s main service celebrating Orthodox Easter at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia.

Clergymen and the head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Neophyte, center, take part in the festive midnight Mass in front of Alexander Nevsky cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Patriarch Kirill, head of Russia's Orthodox Church, conducts the Orthodox Easter service at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

Fireworks explode over the Parthenon temple to celebrate the Greek Orthodox Easter in Athens, Greece.

Orthodox nuns and monks attend Orthodox Easter service at St. John the Baptist Monastery near Mavroro in North Macedonia

Patriarch Kirill, head of Russia's Orthodox Church, conducts the Easter service at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

Orthodox monks attend Orthodox Easter service at St. John the Baptist Monastery near Mavroro as the service is streamed online.