Orphangate resolved?
January 28, 2010 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 7 Comments
Well, the New York-Constantinople brouhaha seems resolved — sort of (see: Abp. Demetrios on the way out?). You still wonder though why a hierarch wrote of Abp. Demetrios in terms we could charitably call disparaging over what should have been an easily resolvable dispute. It’s all a misunderstanding Constantinople assures us, even though it took [...]
Metropolitan Jonah apologizes for ‘uncharitable’ remarks directed at Ecumenical Patriarch
April 20, 2009 by John Couretas · 29 Comments
From the Orthodox Church in America Web site. Posted April 17: Metropolitan Jonah issues statement on recent sermon SYOSSET, NY [OCA Communications] — On Great, Holy and Good Friday, April 17, 2009, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, issued the following statement in response to recent commentary on his April [...]
Transcription of Met. Jonah’s Speech on Orthodoxy Unity in America
April 9, 2009 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 9 Comments
Sermon delivered at St. Seraphim Orthodox Cathedral in Dallas, Texas on April 5, 2009. It is a great joy to see everybody here this evening from so many different communities, from different traditions. Orthodoxy is a celebration of diversity in unity, and unity in diversity. Our unity is in our one Lord and Savior Jesus [...]
Met. Jonah to Old World bishops: Hands Off the American Church!
April 7, 2009 by John Couretas · 171 Comments
In a stinging rebuke to the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Metropolitan Jonah of the Orthodox Church in America issued a call for a unified American Church and rejected any path to unity that would mean “we surrender the freedom we have embraced as American Orthodox Christians to a patriarchate still under Islamic domination.” The video here records [...]
OCL responds to EP talk at Holy Cross
March 26, 2009 by Fr. Johannes Jacobse · 8 Comments
George Michalopulos, Orthodox Christian Laity board member and frequent contributor to the AOI blog, penned the official OCL response to Arch. Elpidophoros Lambriniadis’ recent talk at Holy Cross School of Theology. Original article is posted on the OCL website. An OCL Board Member Responds to the Message of Chief Secretary of The Holy and Sacred [...]
E Pluribus Unum: One Church From Many?
March 18, 2009 by John Couretas · 1 Comment
The American Orthodox Institute has published a new paper on Orthodox unity by George Michalopulos that examines the historical usage of the title “metropolitan,” the role of the metropolitan in Church administration, and the “crucial” pastoral duty defined in the Divine Liturgy as “rightly dividing the Word of [God's] Truth.” In “E Pluribus Unum: One [...]
Ecumenical Patriarchate: American ‘Diaspora’ must submit to Mother Church
March 18, 2009 by John Couretas · 342 Comments
The battle is joined. Highlight: With regards to the United States, the submission to the First Throne of the Church, that is, to the Ecumenical Patriarchate is not only fitting with the American society and mentality but also it opens up the horizons of possibilities for this much-promising region, which is capable of becoming an [...]
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