July 23, 2019 To All of the Bishops, Priests, and Faithful of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church – On June 17, 2016 His Eminence Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, my predecessor in the Presidency of the Standing Conference of Oriental Orthodox Churches (SCOOCH), wrote to you expressing our condolences on the repose […]
Paramus, NJ – At the kind invitation of the former president of the Standing Conference of Oriental Orthodox Churches (SCOOCH) – His Holiness Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East – several bishops of SCOOCH were blessed to participate in the consecration of St. Mark’s Syriac […]
New York – The Standing Conference of Oriental Orthodox Churches (SCOOCH) congratulates His Grace Bishop Daniel Findikyan, the newly consecrated Bishop and Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church in America. On Saturday, May 18, 2019 SCOOCH hierachs H.E. Mor Dionysios John Kawak of the Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese, […]
New York – Late last month, H.E. Archbishop Khajag Barsamian announced that he would be retiring as Primate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church in the United States, and by implication, as President of the Standing Conference of Oriental Orthodox Churches. On Friday, May 4, 2018, it was […]
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 […]
