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January 23rd, 2020

“A LION OF ORTHODOXY”: THEOLOGIAN, ASCETIC, ANTI-ECUMENIST; In memoriam, Protpresbyter George Metallinos

By Athanasius Zoitakis
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Fr. George Metallinos is and will be remembered among those still struggling in this world as a great Churchman, a faithful man, a confessor and expositor of Orthodoxy, an unparalleled expert on Orthodoxy and Greece under the Turkish Yoke, and a spiritual man of great stature, nobility and refinement. I was very blessed to come to know Fr. George in the early 2000s and work besides him drafting...

Tagged In: Fr. George Metallinos, church-life, ecumenism, Greece, martyria, spiritual-life, tradition, Romanity, Phyletism, heresy-of-ecumenism, Ecclesiology
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December 21st, 2019

Christmas Night

A homily by Fr. Athanasius Mitilinaios, delivered on Christmas Day in the year 2000.
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When God the Word was creating the universe, my dearly beloved, he designated a moment in time when He Himself would visibly visit it. This great visit is the Incarnation of God the Word. His presence on Earth rendered it the center of the created, visible world. The Incarnation is the greatest event in the visible and invisible created world, before which even the angels were...

Tagged In: church-life, spiritual-life, tradition, Feast Days, Fr. Athanasius Mitilinaios
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September 26th, 2019

September 25th: Today’s Saint in the Orthodox Church: Venerable Dosithea, Recluse of the Kiev Caves; Commemoration of the Miracle of the Trisagion

Fr. Peter Heers presents the Life of a Saint celebrated today in the Orthodox Church
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Tagged In: Lives of the Saints, monasticism, Russia
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September 9th, 2019

Prof Dimitrios Tselengidis’ Letter to the Holy Synod of Greece

Dimitrios Tselengidis is professor of dogmatic theology at the University of Thessaloniki
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SUBJECT: Regarding the institutional legitimization of the schismatic Church of Ukraine

Most Blessed Primate,

Reverend Holy Hierarchs,

With regard to the upcoming convocation of the Holy Synod of Hierarchs, as the least member of our local Church, but also as professor of the Church’s Dogmatic Theology, I...

Tagged In: Demetrios Tselengides, Ecclesiology, church-life, ecumenism, Patristic Theology, spiritual-life, Secularism, Russia, Ukraine, tradition
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June 18th, 2019

The Unbroken Continuity of the Roman Empire

Gregory Heers
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Livy, the Roman historian that lived around the time of Christ, wrote, ‘I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours, or richer in good citizens and noble deeds’ (Early History 30). It is therefore lamentable that in the common mind this most glorious empire should be endowed with an end so ignoble and unworthy of mention. According to any typical history-book, the Roman...

Tagged In: Phyletism, Romanity, Church History
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About the Editor of Orthodox Ethos

The Editor of Orthodox Ethos is Fr. Peter Heers

From January of 2017 until May of 2018, Fr. Peter was the instructor of Old and New Testament at Holy Trinity Orthodox Seminary in Jordanville, New York, and continues now as a Lecturer of Dogmatic Theology in the Certificate of Theological Studies Program. Fr. Peter is the founder and current head of Uncut Mountain Press (founded in 2000), and the founder and first editor of “Divine Ascent, A Journal of Orthodox Faith” (begun in 1995). Fr. Peter was also the host of the podcast, Postcards from Greece, and is a regular speaker to parish groups in the United States and Canada.

Fr. Peter is the author of The Missionary Origins of Modern Ecumenism: Milestones Leading up to 1920, as well as The Ecclesiological Renovation of the Second Vatican Council: An Orthodox Examination of Rome’s Ecumenical Theology Regarding Baptism and the Church , which was released in November of 2015 and is also available here. It is also available in Greek.

Fr. Peter is also the translator of several books, including the Life of Elder Paisios (co-translator) and the Epistles of Elder Paisios,The Truth of our Faith (vols 1&2) by Elder Cleopa and Apostle to Zaire: The Life of Fr. Cosmas of Grigoriou, as well as the best-selling children’s book From I-ville to You-ville.

Fr. Peter has undergraduate, masters and doctoral degrees in Dogmatic Theology from the Theological School of the University of Thessalonica, all completed under the tutelage of Professor Demetrios Tselingides. He was the rector and spiritual father of the parish of the Holy Prophet Elias in Petrokerasa, a small village in the mountains outside of Thessalonica, Greece, from 2006 until 2017. In 2014 he was made Protopresbyteros and Spiritual Father of the Diocese of Ierissou and Agion Oros.

Fr. Peter Heers was born in Dallas, Texas and grew up near San Francisco. The son of an Anglican priest, in 1992 his parents and much of his father’s parish converted to the Orthodox Church. In 1996 he came to Thessaloniki, Greece, in order to visit Mt. Athos, returning again in 1998 to begin the Theological School of the University of Thessaloniki. He lived in Thessaloniki for 18 years, where he was married to a Thessaloniki native (and blessed with 5 children) and ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in 2003, in the Diocese of Kastoria.

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