The words Eastern and Oriental are synonyms. Yet in the 20th century these two words came to be be used to distinguish the two major families of Orthodox churches that were estranged in the fifth century over the dilemma of how properly to understand Jesus’ divinity and his humanity. The Zohrab Center will inaugurate […]
Please join us for the 5th Annual Oriental Orthodox Concelebrated Liturgy of the Philadelphia Region. Hosted by: St. George Coptic Orthodox Church 411 Dekalb Street, Norristown, PA 19401 Participating Churches: Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church Coptic Orthodox Church Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Malankara-Syriac Orthodox Church Syriac Orthodox Church Knanaya-Syriac […]
Bronx, NY – On the evening of Thursday, August 24, 2017, the clergy and faithful of the Ethiopian Orthodox Archdiocese of New York gathered at the historic Holy Trinity Cathedral in the Bronx to consecrate a pair of tabots – sacred altar stones, without which a church’s altar is not […]
Holmdel, NJ – On June 24, 2017, noted theologian Fr. Peter Farrington of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK spoke to an audience of youth and clergy on the subject of Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy at the Sixth Annual SCOOYA Youth Conference. SCOOCH invites you to view the video of […]
June 12, 2017 To All of the Bishops, Priests, and Faithful of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church – Last year around this time (June 7, 2016), we wrote to you to offer our condolences upon the repose of His Eminence Abune Dioskoros, to wish you a blessed feast of […]
