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Chambésy proposes Episcopal Assemblies in the 1990s
Fresh from the historic first Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America, it is helpful to remember that the proposal for the regional Assemblies which came out of the Chambésy, Switzerland meetings of the…
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Further impressions from the Episcopal Assembly
Some more impressions, not terribly well sorted: One thing that struck me about the event was its lack of staff. Normally, these kind of big church events are swarming with photographers, porters, subdeacons swirling…
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Episcopal Assembly issues statement
The hierarchs of the Episcopal Assembly, which has just concluded, issued the following statement: We glorify the name of the Triune God for gathering us at this first Episcopal Assembly of this region in…
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Impressions from the Episcopal Assembly
It was a pretty hot day in Manhattan yesterday. Despite the discomfort, though, the Orthodox Christian hierarchy of North America seemed to be in pretty decent spirits. I’m here in Manhattan at the 2010…
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Fr. Nicola Yanney: the first Antiochian priest in Mid-America
Editor’s note: The following article was written by Fr. Paul Hodge, pastor of St. Thomas Orthodox Church (Antiochian) in Sioux City, Iowa, and former priest of St. George Church in Kearney, Nebraska. It…
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The Russian Archbishop welcomes the Greek Archdiocese, 1921
“[I]n 1921 … without the knowledge and canonical approval of the Russian Orthodox Church, a Greek Archdiocese was founded in America.” (Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow to Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras, March 17, 1970.) Patriarch…