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Metropolitan Nicholas of Mesogaias: Encyclical on Ecumenism and the recent meeting between the Ecumenical Patriarch and the Pope in Jerusalem
1 July 2014
On June 1 (Sunday of the Holy Fathers), 2014, His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki issued the following beneficial, challenging and balanced encyclical to mark the meeting be...
The saints of the poor: Saints Anargyroi – 1st of July
1 July 2014
Saints Cosmas and Damian, Greek contemporary Icon
In our church we have many cases of saints who put into practice the Lord's words, "heal the ill... as you freely have received, so you freely have ...
Eusebius’ views for the Reign of Constantine the Great
Eirini Artemi
28 June 2014
Eusebius's history was not written simply to record the deeds of the church after Christ's ascension; he wanted to show that Christianity, with Constantine's conversion, was the pinnacle of humanity's...
Traditional and ‘Modern’ Art
Fotis Kondoglou
27 June 2014
Text written somwhere in the 1950s...
Most people value art that depicts what it wants to portray in a natural way. But this is a mechanical task that shows people what they’re looking at, withou...
The Fall of Mosul
Philip Jenkins
25 June 2014
On June 10, the city of Mosul fell to the forces of ISIS, the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams. Politically, this is a catastrophe for American hopes of preserving the settlement they had ...
The 3rd Inter-Orthodox Conference on Religious Education in Bulgaria (17-21 June)
Petros Panayiotopoulos, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Theology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
23 June 2014
The proceedings of the 3rd Inter-Orthodox Conference on Religious Education, with the general theme: ‘Teaching Methods in Religious Education- Learning by Heart or by Experience’ met with complete suc...
The Theologian as a Guarantor of an Orthodox Education
Demetrios Mouzakis
23 June 2014
The debate about the character and role of the theologian* goes back to the early nineteenth century, when various groups with new theological and philosophical ideas and new pedagogical theories of W...
The Blessed Martyrs Neofytos, Amvrosios and Makarios († 1821) and Dionysios († 1822)
23 June 2014
These were monks of the holy monastery of Vatopaidi. In 1820, the hieromonks Neofytos and Amvrosios, the hierodeacon Parthenios and the monks Dionysios and Dorotheos were sent to Crete, where they w...
Saint Gregory the Teacher – 22th of June
22 June 2014
The holy metropolitan Gregory the Teacher was born into a blessed family in Bucharest, in the year 1765, and was given the name Gheorghe (George). The young George (Minculescu) studied at the most fam...
Father Arseny (1894-1975): The testimony of a Russian Confessor
22 June 2014
The political prisoners were all too well aware that each day that passed brought them closer to the inevitable end of their earthly lives. As if by some spontaneous reaction, they struggled desperate...