Orthodox Ethos
Top Banner Image

Orthodox Ethos | permalink source

Martyria Pan Orthodox Council Phronema Tradition

Upcoming Lecture: The Church: the Body of Christ, the Continuation of the Incarnation

Orthodox Ecclesiology and the New Ecclesiology within Ecumenism

Comment Share Share Tweet Email Print

A talk by Protopresbyter Peter Heers, followed by Q&A

Date: June 16, 2017

Time: 6:00 PM

Place: St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, McKinney, TX

Everything Free of Charge

Tagged In: church-life, Ecclesiology, heresy-of-ecumenism, tradition, Council
Posted on May 4th, 2017

Please be kind, lest your comment go the way of Babylon.

About the Editor of Orthodox Ethos

The Editor of Orthodox Ethos is Fr. Peter Heers

Fr. Peter Heers is currently the Headmaster of Three Hierarchs Academy and Rector of St Seraphim of Sarov Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church) in Florence, Arizona.

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). A also the host of the podcast, Postcards from Greece, and 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.

Learn more about the Orthodox Ethos website.

Email Updates

Connect on Facebook?