Saturday, October 17, 2009

OCA Delegation in Georgia TBLISI, GEORGIA [OCA Communications/St. Catherine Representation Church] — On Thursday, October 15, 2009, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, visited the Office of International Orthodox Christian Charities [IOCC] in the Georgian captial, where he had the opportunity to speak with its director and staff. Also [...]

OCA Delegation in Georgia On Friday, October 16, 2009, His Beatitude, Metropolitan JONAH of All America and Canada, by invitation of His Eminence, Metropolitan DIMITRI of Batumi and Lazeti, visited several of the parishes, monasteries and social institutions of Batumi during his short stay there as a guest of the Georgian Orthodox Church. The day [...]

Serbian Orthodox Church With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Pavle of Serbia and His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Grace Bishop Atanasije received on October 6, 2009 at the Patriarchate court in Belgrade a high delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, led by His Excellence Dr Mehdi Mostafavi, councilor [...]

SYRIAC LEXICON The second edition of Carl Brockelmann’s Lexicon Syriacum, published in 1928, is rightly considered to be the best dictionary of Syriac ever written. However, its Latin language and the ordering of words according to triliteral Semitic roots make its use difficult for most students and scholars. Moreover, the dictionary was composed in an [...]

Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations and rector of the Sts Cyril and Methodius Church Graduate and Doctorate School, gave lectures at St. Petersburg Theological Seminary and Academy, on 13 October 2009. In the beginning of the meeting which took place at the Academy’s assembly hall, His [...]

Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Lithuania and Russia are leaders in the number of suicides. The scale of this tragedy is a reason to think and begin speaking about the causes of such shameful ‘leadership’ The secretariat of the Christian Inter-confessional Consultative Committee of the CIS and Baltic Counties (CICCC) met on 15 October, 2009, at [...]