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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MARBLEHEAD – The Holy Assumption Orthodox Church in Marblehead, Ohio that has served Eastern European immigrants for generations, including Greek Catholics, on April 1 will receive a commemorative plaque from the Ottawa County Historical Society.
It’s the oldest Orthodox church in Ohio and one of the 15 self-governing Eastern Orthodox Churches worldwide, said the Sandusky Register, noting the Greek Catholic Church of the Dormition (Assumption) of Mary was founded in 1897 in the village.
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With immigrants moving from Eastern Europe to Marblehead, many Carpatho-Russian Greek Catholics sought to return to the Eastern Orthodox Church, coinciding with an Orthodoxy movement in Europe and North America.
A Greek-Catholic priest, Father Alexis Toth, led the Orthodoxy movement in America due to his dislike of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, which inspired him to create his parish in Minneapolis, Minnesota, under the rule of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow, the church’s website said.
“That event became the catalyst for many other Greek Catholic parishes to return to the Orthodox Faith,” the report said, adding that a contrast in beliefs caused a division among church leaders where some decided to leave the Orthodox Church and return to the Greek Catholic Church, traditionally referred to as Unia.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.