LEWISBURG — While many celebrate Christmas during the last week of December, the Russian Orthodox Christian Church (ROC) waits a week to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
ONE of the books I bought this year was The Orthodox Study Bible, prepared by the Academic Community of St. Athanasius Academy of Orthodox Theology and published by Thomas Nelson. Among its notes, there is a reference to the separation of the Orthodox and the Catholic communities blamed, quite expectedly, on the Bishop of Rome s claims to supremacy over the patriarchs who presided over sees or jurisdictions that claimed to be as original as Rome and could trace their authority to one or the other apostle.
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The Reverend Father Alexander Veronis, 90, longtime pastor of the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church of Lancaster, entered eternal life on June 26, 2023 exactly the way he had hoped with