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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, 07 Oct 2015 10:10:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/ep-fast-track-homily-of-met-elpidophoros-of-proussa-at-his-ordination/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ep-fast-track-homily-of-met-elpidophoros-of-proussa-at-his-ordination/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:07:09 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9576 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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Readers will remember that Met. Elpidophoros gave the controversial speech at Holy Cross a few years back extolling the virtues of Constantinople and castigating America for ignoring it (see: Ecumenical Patriarchate: American ‘Diaspora’ must submit to Mother Church). It didn’t go over well at all. The next year he was invited to St. Vladimir’s Seminary […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ep-fast-track-homily-of-met-elpidophoros-of-proussa-at-his-ordination/feed/ 30 https://www.aoiusa.org/orphangate-resolved/ https://www.aoiusa.org/orphangate-resolved/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:20:32 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5669 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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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 […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/orphangate-resolved/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-jonah-apologizes-for-uncharitable-remarks-directed-at-ecumenical-patriarch/ https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-jonah-apologizes-for-uncharitable-remarks-directed-at-ecumenical-patriarch/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:04:14 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1905 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 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 […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/metropolitan-jonah-apologizes-for-uncharitable-remarks-directed-at-ecumenical-patriarch/feed/ 29 https://www.aoiusa.org/transcription-of-met-jonahs-speech/ https://www.aoiusa.org/transcription-of-met-jonahs-speech/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:53:30 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1516 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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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 […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/transcription-of-met-jonahs-speech/feed/ 9 https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-to-old-world-bishops-hands-off-the-american-church/ https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-to-old-world-bishops-hands-off-the-american-church/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:08:12 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1468 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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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 […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/met-jonah-to-old-world-bishops-hands-off-the-american-church/feed/ 171 https://www.aoiusa.org/ocl-responds-to-ep-talk-at-holy-cross/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ocl-responds-to-ep-talk-at-holy-cross/#comments Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:28:26 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1364 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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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 […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ocl-responds-to-ep-talk-at-holy-cross/feed/ 8 https://www.aoiusa.org/e-pluribus-unum-one-church-from-many/ https://www.aoiusa.org/e-pluribus-unum-one-church-from-many/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:49:57 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1268 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 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 […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/e-pluribus-unum-one-church-from-many/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarchate-american-diaspora-must-submit-to-mother-church/ https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarchate-american-diaspora-must-submit-to-mother-church/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:16:56 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=1242 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 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 […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarchate-american-diaspora-must-submit-to-mother-church/feed/ 346