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Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus. Photo: Romfea

METROPOLITAN OF PIRAEUS ON UKRAINIANS’ ECUMENISM WITH CATHOLICS: “THESE PEOPLE LACK THE FEAR OF GOD”

By Webmaster on October 15, 2019 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories, Uncategorized

Source: Orthodox Christianity Piraeus, Greece – The results and consequences of the meeting of the hierarchs of the Greek Church on Saturday remain unclear. As OrthoChristian reported yesterday, the press team created by the Bishops’ Council announced that the Greek Church recognized the so-called “Ukrainian Orthodox Church” (OCU), thought this interpretation of the councils’ proceedings was later called into question. Both Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus and Metropolitan Seraphim of Kythira revealed that, in fact, the hierarchs did not vote on the matter of recognizing the OCU, and thus it cannot be said that recognition happened. Met. Seraphim of Piraeus issued another statement today,…

90% OF PEOPLE OF GREEK DESCENT HAVE LEFT THE ORTHODOX CHURCH

By Webmaster on October 13, 2019 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News, Uncategorized

I had originally intended that this column would further explore the importance of women in the early church but will offer it in the coming weeks. What blew me off course was a recent column by a regular writer of the National Herald, Mr. Theodore Kalmoukos. His column called attention and inveighed against the bishops and metropolitans for their failure to speak up and address serious matters which could lead to the eventual demise of the Greek Orthodox Church in America. Kalmoukos called them “a scattered village with nine small archdioceses and nine little archbishops” who almost brought the church…

Metropolitan Peter of Prespa-Pelagoniski

CONSTANTINOPLE WANTS TO DISCUSS GRANTING AUTOCEPHALY TO SCHISMATIC “MACEDONIAN CHURCH,” MACEDONIAN HIERARCH SAYS

By Webmaster on October 10, 2019 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories, Uncategorized

Source: Orthodox Christianity Prespa, North Macedonia — “There is a sense that the Patriarchate of Constantinople will launch formal talks on autocephaly,” Metropolitan Peter of Prespa-Pelagoniski of the schismatic “Macedonian Orthodox Church” (MOC) told reporters recently, as reports Romfea. There have been no official contacts or meetings yet, the MOC hierarch stressed, though he said there has been an informal expression of a desire by Patriarch Bartholomew himself to resolve the issue of the Serbian-Macedonian schism. “There is a disposition by the Patriarchate of Constantinople to resolve the issue of the autocephaly of our church in one of the future sessions of the…

Musing of Andy Kartalis, OCL Endowment Chairman

By Webmaster on September 30, 2019 OCL News, Orthodox Christian Laity, Orthodox News, Orthodox News Top Stories, Uncategorized

Source: Orthodox Christian Laity Will YOU Play a Part? Have you considered including OCL in your long-term financial plans? Dear OCL Supporters and Friends, The Orthodox Christian Laity (OCL) movement is the remnant of the optimism of the CEOYLA and GOYA movements which fostered and personified Orthodox Christian Unity. These groups peaked in the mid-20th Century and then were marginalized by the hierarchy in the 1970’s. OCL picked up where they left off and was formed in 1987. OCL is keeping its eye on the prize: Orthodox Christian Unity as The Way Forward. Otherwise, Orthodox Christianity in the USA will…

THE OCL UNITY ADVOCATE LEGACY SOCIETY

By Webmaster on September 7, 2019 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories, OCL News, Orthodox Christian Laity, Orthodox News, Orthodox News Top Stories, Uncategorized

Source: Orthodox Christian Laity Dear OCL Supporters and Friends, OCL is grateful to YOU, our supporters and friends. Your generous annual donations have enabled us to promote our mission. It is because of your belief in our OCL Mission: Orthodox Unity, transparency, accountability, and laity co- ministry, I want to personally invite you to become a member of OCL’s UNITY ADVOCATE Legacy Society. UNITY ADVOCATE LEGACY SOCIETY is composed of generous and forward-thinking donors who will support our long-term success through a planned gift. It is easy to do. And you don’t have to be a millionaire to do it. …

The Fletcher School at Tufts University

Metropolis Tapped to Pilot Executive Education Program at Tufts University

By Webmaster on August 21, 2019 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories, Uncategorized

Source: Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Click on the letter below to view in PDF format. [gview file=”https://ocl.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/TuftsFletcherSchoolAnnouncementEDITED.pdf”]

22nd Church Assembly-Sabor of the Serbian Orthodox Dioceses in the USA

COMMUNIQUÉ of the 22nd Church Assembly-Sabor of the Serbian Orthodox Dioceses in the US

By Webmaster on July 28, 2019 Governance & Unity News, Governance Top Stories, Uncategorized

Source: Serbian Orthodox Church COMMUNIQUÉ 22nd Church Assembly-Sabor of the Serbian Orthodox Dioceses in the United States of America, July 13-16, 2019 800 Years of the Autocephaly of the Serbian Orthodox Church: Endowed by God, Treasured by the People The hierarchs, clergy and delegates representing parishes and diocesan bodies from the three Dioceses of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the United States of America met July 13-16, 2019 at New Gracanica Monastery in Third Lake, Illinois and St. Sava Monastery in Libertyville, Illinois for the 22nd Church Assembly-Sabor of the Serbian Orthodox Dioceses in the United States. Throughout, the meetings were characterized by…

Archbishop Elpidophoros (Lambriniadis)

ARCHBISHOP OF AMERICA ELPIDOPHOROS, OR THE END OF ALL ILLUSIONS ABOUT THE PHANAR

By Webmaster on July 4, 2019 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News, Uncategorized

Source: Orthodox Christianity Arkady Maler The author of this analysis of the current threat hanging over world Orthodoxy, Arkady Maler, is a scholar and teacher of philosophy specializing in Russian religious philosophy. He is a member of the Synodal Biblical-Theological Commission of the Inter-Council Presence of the Moscow Patriarchate and founder of Moscow’s “Byzantine Club”. Maler is the author of four religious-philosophical books, which include the theme of Constantine the Great, and Russia’s spiritual mission. A half a year did not go by from the formation by the Constantinople Patriarchate of a hastily-cobbled, politically strategic, fake church in Ukraine under…

Pan-Orthodox Event in California Raises Over $100,000 to Support Orphans and Students in India

By Webmaster on June 24, 2019 Orthodox News, Orthodox News Top Stories, Uncategorized

Source: Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco Led by His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos and the faithful of the Metropolis of San Francisco, a fundraising reception was held on Saturday, March 16, 2019 following Pan-Orthodox Vespers at the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church in Long Beach, CA. The proceeds from this event were designated for the Theotokos Girls and Boys Orphanage and Saint Ignatius School in Bakeswar, India. The evening began with Pan-Orthodox clergy and faithful being led in prayer by His Grace Bishop Maxim of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Western America, along with His Eminence…

Discern! Who is genuinely a spiritual man, and who is not.

By Webmaster on June 10, 2019 Governance & Unity Essays, Governance & Unity News, Uncategorized

by Hagiographos Elias Damianakis Archon Maestor Great Church of Christ June 9, 2019 When I choose to write an article, I expect to write in a professional and impersonal voice. But the regular expectations change a bit when I respond to an incompetent fraudster’s article. This is just one response. The once cogent Orthodox Christian Laity (OCL) has lost its standing in the community. The constant duplicity of republishing of the fanciful “works” of less than reputable authors like Nick Stamatakis proves this. The OCL’s June 8th article “NEW MISSTEPS BY A CONFUSED ELPIDOPHOROS” goes too far. Literally every line…

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