Orthodox News

Boston, MA – Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF) held its first-ever Chaplains Conference for clergy and lay leaders May 2-4, 2006 at the Antiochian Village Conference Center in Ligonier, PA. This fantastic retreat brought together twenty clergy and lay OCF chaplains from throughout North America.

The conference hosted OCF Chaplains from schools including Pennsylvania State University, University of Arizona – Tucson and as far away as the University of Alaska – Fairbanks. The conference focused on establishing a dialogue with this ministry group with each chaplain sharing their approach, successes, and obstacles. With an estimated 40,000 Orthodox College students on campus each year, the conference was an essential time to allow chaplains to network together to learn how to more effectively minister to the students.

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San Francisco, May 17, Interfax – A San Francisco session of the Bishops’ Council of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad has approved a resolution proposing a reunion with the Moscow Patriarchate, the Russian Church abroad said on its official website.

The council will also adopt an act on interaction with the Moscow Patriarchate.

Last week’s All-Diaspora Convention agreed that “this creative deed must culminate in the restoration of the long-sought unity of the Russian Church,” the resolution reads.

SYOSSET, NY [OCA Communications] The Lesser Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America, under the chairmanship of the Primate, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Herman, met at the OCA Chancery here on Thursday, April 27, 2006.

The members of the Lesser Synod reviewed the minutes of the extraordinary meeting of the Metropolitan Council Administrative Committee at the Chancery on March 16, 2006. Read the text of Metropolitan Herman’s statement to the Administrative Committee.

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The 6th Annual IOCC 5K Run/Walk will take place on Saturday, May 6th, 2006 at the Century Center Office Plaza.

The IOCC CEO, Constantine Triantafilou and the 26 IOCC Board of Directors will be in Atlanta, Georgia on the weekend of May 5th thru May 7th, 2006. The IOCC Board of Directors will be meeting with the Atlanta IOCC Metropolitan Committee that weekend and will be participating in the Run/Walk on Saturday morning.

This will be a great blessing, honour and responsibility on our part as we host this event.

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PRESOV, East Slovakia/PRAGUE, Jan 30 (CTK) – Archbishop Nikolaj, Orthodox Metropolitan in the Czech Lands and in Slovakia, died in Presov early today, aged 79, Professor Milan Gerka, secretary of the Orthodox Church synod, has told CTK.

Nikolaj has been seriously ill for a longer time and he did not exercise his office to the full.

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