May 14, 2009 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: African Orthodox, African saints, African-American Orthodox, African-Americans, American Orthodox, Black Church, Black clergy, Black saints, Christianity, church, clergy, conversion, deacons, Detroit, Eastern Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy, evangelism, evangelization, Michigan, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Church, Orthodox mission, orthodoxy, religion, religious conversion, St. Moses the Black, St. Moses the Ethiopian
…is a talk being given in Detroit by an Orthodox deacon, a convert from Catholicism, Saturday evening. It’s sponsored by that area’s chapter of the Brotherhood of St. Moses the Black, and Detroit’s Council of Orthodox Christian Churches. Details here (link will eventually break).
November 14, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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On the 1st of this month Abbot Jonah (Paffhausen) from California was consecrated Titular Bishop of Ft. Worth, Texas, and Auxiliary Bishop in the OCA’s Diocese of Dallas and the South — probably the newest Bishop in the entire Orthodox Church. Yesterday (Wed.) he was elected Primate of the OCA, quite possibly the first convert [...]
October 12, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: orthodoxy, Orthodox Christianity, Russian Orthodoxy, Orthodox mission, Christianity, religion, Eastern Orthodoxy, evangelism, evangelization, Orthodox conversion, missions, China, Ecumenical Patriarchate, Moscow Patriarchate, patriarchate of constantinople, Chinese Orthodoxy, PRC, Hong Kong, Orthodox Churches, Shanghai, Communist China, Mainland China, Patriarchate of Moscow, Christianity in China, Chinese church, Cultural Revolution, religion in China
Just last week, the “fellowship” in Hong Kong associated with Archpriest Dionisy Pozdnyaev, which I believe includes both ex-patriates and Chinese, was formally reactivated as a parish by the Moscow Patriarchal Synod, 36 years after its closure following the repose of its last pastor. Many years to the new parish and its new rector, Fr. [...]
October 8, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: Africa, African Orthodoxy, Alaska, aleuts, American Indians, Antiochian Orthodox Church, Christianity, Dagsboro, Delaware, Delmarva, east coast Indians, Eastern Orthodoxy, evangelization, Fenwick Island, Great Commission, incarnational missiology, inculturation, Indian River Hundred, indigenous peoples, Innocent of Alaska, Ioann Veniaminov, Millsboro, mission, missions, Nanticoke Indians, Native Americans, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Church in America, Orthodox mission, orthodoxy, powwows, religion, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodoxy, Siberia, Sussex County, Unangan
There’s a new mission (OCA) in Dagsboro, Sussex County, Delaware, originally located in Fenwick Island, DE. Another recent mission (Antiochian) is in nearby Lewes,* Delaware [known somewhat for the Cape May-Lewes Ferry across the mouth of Delaware Bay, a neat boat ride in nice weather, by foot or by motor vehicle].
These drew my attention because my [...]
April 27, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: Antiochian Orthodoxy, Celtic Christianity, Celtic spirituality, charities, Christianity, donations, Eastern Orthodoxy, Ireland, Irish mission, Irish Orthodoxy, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox mission, orthodoxy, pilgrimages, religion
Ta Criost aiseirithe! Aiseirithe go fior!
This links to discussion of their 2007 pilgrimage, but FWIU they’re planning one for 2008 also. Wish I had the moola, because it sounds well-grounded, much better than other “Celtic spirituality pilgrimages” there! (What else to expect from Orthodoxy?!!) $1300.00 US plus airfare – Ouch!
In any case, it seems you [...]
Because Gregory raised the issue that was certainly in the back (or front!) of many other people’s minds about there now being two jurisdictions working in The Philippines, I’m pleased to offer more details that have become available from a priest in Australia (third-hand … or fourth? … from another web forum):
What is happening in [...]
April 18, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: Antiochian, Australia, Christianity, donations, Eastern Orthodoxy, missions, New Zealand, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox mission, Philippines, religion
For Lenten almsgiving, consider the following:
Metropolitan Archbishop PAUL of the Antiochian Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand, in announcing the reception of the 6,000 in the Philippines on their website, requested donations to help with things there. He listed a bank account number for wire transfers, but in case those are costly for you internationally, I [...]
March 30, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: Antiochian Orthodoxy, Australia, Christianity, conversion, Eastern Orthodoxy, Evangelical Orthodox, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox mission, orthodoxy, Philippines, religion
The Antiochian Archdiocese in Australia has recently announced it expects to receive into its ranks members and prospective clergy from two denominations in The Philippines, who a Wiki author reports to number approximately 6,000 in 35 congregations / missions (link probably won’t last forever). They’ve already got an interesting English-language website for mission in that [...]
…has been key to the growth of the Faith in Indonesia, as illustrated by one of the newer converts and priests there in this interview with Orthodox.cn, the Chinese Orthodox website.
March 29, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: Christianity, church history, dialogue, Eastern Orthodoxy, ecumenism, Lutheranism, Martin Luther, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox mission, orthodoxy, religion
“Martin Luther once remarked that he believed the pure Faith of primitive Christianity is to be found in the Orthodox Church,” according to this very informative UK site on Orthodoxy. I’ve also read that some early Lutheran leaders in Germany corresponded with a Patriarch of Constantinople over a number of years. But in the end, [...]
March 29, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
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The main meaning of the Greek verb baptizo, from which the English word baptism is ultimately derived (as Mr. Portokalos advised us!), is to dip, as in water.
Christianity as such didn’t invent the practice of dipping converts in water. The Old Testament Church sometimes baptized proselytes, and so did some other Near Eastern religions. But dipping [...]
March 27, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: Christianity, Eastern Orthodoxy, icons, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox mission, orthodoxy, relics, religion, Russian Orthodoxy, saints, Serb Orthodoxy, Serbian Orthodoxy
Archimandrite Sebastian (Dabovich) (1863-1940) was the first person ordained to the Orthodox priesthood who had been born in what was, at the time of his birth, United States territory, to wit, San Francisco, California, the son of Serbian immigrants.* He was one of the pioneers in the service of the Moscow Patriarchate to Orthodox immigrants of many ethnic backgrounds in [...]
March 22, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: African Orthodoxy, African-American Orthodox, African-Americans, Black Orthodox, Eastern Orthodoxy, evangelism, evangelization, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox mission, orthodoxy, St. Moses
has a website! They’re an Orthodox, largely-African-American fellowship with a mission:
“The Brotherhood of St Moses the Black is a pan-Orthodox nonprofit organization. Its mission is to minister to Americans the gift of Orthodoxy. In an effort to be good stewards of the manifold grace of God (I Peter 4:10), the organization presents an annual conference that targets those [...]
March 11, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: Catholicism, church history, creed, Eastern Orthodoxy, filioque, Holy Spirit, John 15:26, Latin Mass, nicene creed, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox mission, orthodoxy, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholicism, Trinity, Vatican Council, Vatican II
A knowledgeable, intelligent working-class layperson I know in the Latin Church, even a product of parochial schools, even arguably in the Latin Church’s most conservative jurisdiction, who hasn’t been to Mass much since it was translated into English, was shocked to learn that her Church teaches that God’s Spirit eternally proceeds from the Father and the Son, [...]
March 10, 2008 in Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Tags: Alaska, Alaska Natives, Alaskan Indians, American history, American Indians, Christianity, church history, Eastern Orthodoxy, indigenous languages, Native Americans, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox mission, orthodoxy, religion, Russian Orthodox, saints, Santa Claus, visions
According to their parish webpage at oca.org (scroll to bottom section), he appeared in a dream to several leaders. How cool is that! More details are on their own website. (I guess they can’t work this into the movie!!)
Looks like they need help renovating, too, I imagine because the wet southern-Alaska coast weather is murder on [...]
