ΘΕΙΑ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΚΟΡΩΝΟΪΟΣ: ΠΙΣΤΗ, ΦΟΒΟΣ ΚΑΙ... ΦΗΜΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΑΝΔΗΜΙΑ

Ευάγγελος Σωτηρόπουλος,
'Αρχων Οστιάριος
της Αγίας του Χριστού Μεγάλης Εκκλησίας

BARTHOLOMEW: THE PATRIARCH OF OUR CENTURY

“Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong” (2Co 12:10).

His All-Holiness delivering the homily during the Synodal Divine Liturgy (Holy and Great Council) for the Sunday of All Saints 2016 at the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul in Chania, Crete.

By Evagelos Sotiropoulos,

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada  

FRATERNAL GATHERING IN AMMAN EXPOSES TRUTHS IN GLOBAL ORTHODOXY

by Evagelos Sotiropoulos

The late February fraternal gathering of six local Orthodox churches in Amman was instructive and at the same time disheartening. Instructive because the gathering exposed truths in global Orthodoxy; disheartening because it was a sad showcasing of Orthodoxy to the world (for the presumably relatively few outsiders who are still paying attention to us).

IT IS TIME FOR ORTHODOX PRIMATES AND HIERARCHS TO STAND UP TO MOSCOW AND ENSURE CHURCH UNITY

EXCLUSIVE: It is time for Orthodox primates and hierarchs to stand up to Moscow and ensure Church unity

HOW THE MOSCOW PATRIARCHATE TRAMPLES ON CHURCH CANONS AND UNDERMINES ORTHODOX UNITY IN KOREA

EXCLUSIVE: How the Moscow Patriarchate Tramples on Church Canons and Undermines Orthodox Unity in Korea

the orthodox world 

IT’S TIME FOR AN INDEPENDENT UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

by Evagelos Sotiropoulos

CRETE, KOREA, AND THE FUTURE OF ORTHODOXY

Evagelos Sotiropoulos,HuffPost Religion

The Orthodox Metropolis of Korea is a canary in a coal mine for the Orthodox Church.

HOLY PENTECOST: THE HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL COMMENCES

Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Contributor,

HuffPost Religion

The Orthodox Church will celebrate Holy Pentecost tomorrow. Last year, by the Grace of God I had the remarkable and humbling opportunity to be in Crete for this Great Feast and for the Holy and Great Council.

THE CHURCH AND THE HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL

 Evagelos Sotiropoulos,   HuffPost Religion

I recently read a lecture on the Holy and Great Council delivered at the March 2017 Clergy Retreat of the Eastern American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

IN DEFENSE OF THE HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL

Evagelos Sotiropoulos,

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, during his opening address at the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, quoted the preacher with the golden mouth, St. John Chrysostom: “For the term ‘church’ is defined as a system and synod.”

THE HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL: ORTHODOXY’S OPPORTUNITY

Ecumenical Patriarchate Press Office

 Evagelos Sotiropoulos,

“But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’” records Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist (5:37).

THE HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL: SEPARATING THE WHEAT FROM THE CHAFF

Evagelos Sotiropoulos,  

HUFFPOST RELIGION

CHRIST IS RISEN!

With the journey to Pascha having reached its ultimate destination at the glorious Resurrection of the Lord, the Orthodox Church has now embarked on the Pentecostarion period.

ANALYZING THE HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL

  Evagelos Sotiropoulos

 huffingtonpost.com/religion/

The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church to be held in Crete during Pentecost has prompted a great deal of discussion. The affirmation at the January Synaxis of Primates in Chambésy to proceed with the Council was historic and almost one hundred years in the making. With the stage set, this essay will examine three points