News & Updates : Month: July 2023

• HCHC RAISES OVER $2.3 MILLION THROUGH CARLOS MATCHING GRANT

  The ninety-day $1 million challenge grant issued by Helen A. Carlos, exemplary Trustee of Hellenic College Holy Cross (HCHC), has greatly exceeded its goal, raising over $2.3 million dollars in total gifts.  Helen’s intention was to inspire others to take an active interest in providing HCHC with the necessary working capital to advance its strategic initiatives of boosting enrollment, ensuring academic excellence, and enhancing spiritual growth. Donors from across America followed Helen’s lead and multiplied her generosity by contributing over $1.3 million. About a thousand people and several Greek Orthodox parishes from across America responded to the Carlos challenge grant...

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• BISHOP JOACHIM OF AMISSOS LECTURES AT DUMBARTON OAKS

  On July 7, 2023, His Grace Bishop Joachim (Cotsonis) of Amissos, PhD, presented a lecture on the iconography of Byzantine lead seals for the graduate students enrolled in the 2023 Byzantine Coins and Seals Summer Program at Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC. His Grace is the Director of HCHC’s Archbishop Iakovos Library and Learning Resource Center and an internationally recognized authority on the iconography of lead seals, of which the Dumbarton Oaks 17,000-specimen collection is the largest and most comprehensive in the world. The presentation covered such topics as the various images found on seals,...

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• FR. PENTIUC INTERVIEWED IN JERUSALEM

  Rev. Dr. Eugen J. Pentiuc, Archbishop Demetrios Professor of Biblical Studies and Christian Origins and Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Holy Cross, is in Jerusalem this summer as Scholar-in-Residence at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française (EBAF), one of the premier biblical schools in the world. Fr. Pentiuc was recently interviewed by Fr. Anthony Giambrone, Vice-Director of EBAF, about his long relationship with the school and his research and many publications, past and future: http://www.ebaf.edu/en/

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• FR. CALIVAS RECEIVES HONORARY DOCTORATE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

  Rev. Dr. Alkiviadis Calivas, Professor Emeritus of Liturgics at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology and past President of HCHC, was recently awarded an honorary doctorate by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The honor was bestowed upon the unanimous recommendation of the faculty of the Department of Social Theology and Religious Studies of the University's School of Theology and by the unanimous consent of the Senate and Chancellor of the University. In accordance with custom, Fr. Calivas as honoree delivered an academic address in Greek. The title of his talk was "Liturgical Renewal and Reform: Some Initial...

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