The Summer Program for Young Orthodox Scholars provides promising High School and transfer students the opportunity to earn college credit while challenging themselves intellectually and spiritually. Students will live in residence on Eastern University’s campus with a select group of peers engaged in rigorous coursework and discussion of Great Books by Orthodox Christian literary figures.
The Orthodox Metropolitan of Belgium, Athenagoras (Ecumenical Patriarchate) has called for all religious leaders of Belgium to unite their voices and forces against terrorism.
On the Sunday of Orthodoxy, His All-Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew con-celebrated with the current members of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios joined His Brother Hierarchs, including His Eminence Metropolitan Isaiah of Denver, His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco and His Eminence Metropolitan Nikitas of the Dardanelles, along with Metropolitan Tikhon of the OCA.
On Saturday, March 12th, Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law & Justice spoke about Christian Genocide in Naples, FL. He encouraged us to petition our government and seek redress for the injustices against Christians, recognizing the slaughter of Christians in the Middle East as genocide.
On the Feast of St. Alexios, His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios, joined by Fr. George Tsahakis and Fr. Nicholas Kakavelakis celebrated the Presanctified Liturgy in the Metropolis' Archangel Michael Chapel. Metropolis and Cathedral staff offered a reception in His honor at the Annunciation Cathedral. May God grant Metropolitan Alexios many more years!
Nearly 70 of our active and retired clergy (Priests & Deacons) gathered at the Diakonia Retreat Center, March 1 - 3, 2016 for our semi-annual Clergy Syndesmos. His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios thanks our parishes for supporting our clergy's participation. He is grateful to Fr. Paul Costopoulos and Fr. Demetrios Kangelaris for sharing practical knowledge to benefit our clergy and thanks all our clergy that attended.
On the occasion of our 50th Anniversary, we take this opportunity to recommit ourselves as Defenders of the Faith to the Spiritual Center of world Orthodoxy, the Ecumenical Patriarchate under the extraordinary leadership of His All-Holiness Bartholomew, who observes his 25th Anniversary as Ecumenical Patriarch on November 2, 2016. We recommit ourselves to fighting for religious freedom and the vitality of Saint Andrew's See, notwithstanding the oppressive environment where it is located and where religious freedom does not exist in that entire part of the world.