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https://www.aoiusa.org A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:58:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/oca-summarizes-met-hilarions-visit/ https://www.aoiusa.org/oca-summarizes-met-hilarions-visit/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:55:02 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=7610 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Note (from the release): “Metropolitan Hilarion affirmed the Russian Orthodox Church’s commitment to uphold its granting of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in America in 1970,” said Father Alexander Garklavs after the meeting. My question: While I welcome the affirmation, does the Church that grants autocephaly actually have the power to rescind it? I wouldn’t […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/oca-summarizes-met-hilarions-visit/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/6975/ https://www.aoiusa.org/6975/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:37:05 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6975 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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An interesting fact just brought to my attention: Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church was first granted autocephaly by Moscow and only later was the autocephaly accepted by Constantinople. Constantinople’s claim that Moscow had no authority to grant autocephaly is inconsistent with its own practice it appears. From the Wikipedia article on the Czech and Slovak […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/6975/feed/ 20 https://www.aoiusa.org/%e2%80%98we-have-reached-consensus-on-the-autocephaly-procedure%e2%80%99/ https://www.aoiusa.org/%e2%80%98we-have-reached-consensus-on-the-autocephaly-procedure%e2%80%99/#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 23:05:39 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=6605 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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As the Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Commission for the agenda of a Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church continues its work, the issue of granting autocephaly and the diptych order has come up to its attention in the period of 2009-2010. The leader of the Russian Orthodox delegation at the Preparatory Commission meetings, Metropolitan Hilarion […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/%e2%80%98we-have-reached-consensus-on-the-autocephaly-procedure%e2%80%99/feed/ 41 https://www.aoiusa.org/editorial-who-will-pay-the-taxes/ https://www.aoiusa.org/editorial-who-will-pay-the-taxes/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:13:54 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5212 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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From the National Herald: Judging from the massive, angry reaction of our readers so far, it is obvious that we have hit a nerve with our editorial in last week’s edition entitled “Give Us Your Property”, rejecting Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s demand for “at least” a building from each one of our nine metropolises, in order, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/editorial-who-will-pay-the-taxes/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-agenda-at-chambesy/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-agenda-at-chambesy/#respond Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:00:52 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5078 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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12. December 2009 – 9:00 (Source: Serbian Orthodox Church) The Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Commission, responsible for preparation of agenda of an upcoming Holy and Great Assembly of the Orthodox Church, began working 10th December at the Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Chambésy, near Geneve. The Commission will discuss the three topics from pre-prepared catalogue: […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-agenda-at-chambesy/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/official-statement-on-the-diaspora-from-the-chambesy-conference/ https://www.aoiusa.org/official-statement-on-the-diaspora-from-the-chambesy-conference/#comments Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:33:01 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2810 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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THE FOURTH PRE-CONCILIAR PAN-ORTHODOX CONFERENCE The Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Chambésy, 6-13 June 2009 THE ORTHODOX DIASPORA Decision The Fourth Pre-Conciliar Pan-Orthodox Conference was convened by His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, with the consensus of Their Beatitudes the Primates of the Most Holy Orthodox Churches expressed during their Sacred Synaxis at the […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/official-statement-on-the-diaspora-from-the-chambesy-conference/feed/ 13 https://www.aoiusa.org/the-greek-ecclesiastical-settlement/ https://www.aoiusa.org/the-greek-ecclesiastical-settlement/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:04:26 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=2712 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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A really interesting passage from “The legacy of the French Revolution: Orthodoxy and nationalism,” an essay by Paschalis Kitromilides, which explains, among other things, the historical process by which the Church of Greece was granted autocephaly. While the Enlightenment confronted the church with a secular universalist ideology, which, questions of doctrine aside, could in some […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/the-greek-ecclesiastical-settlement/feed/ 3