News and Events

Dr. Nicolas Hadjinicolaou, Professor Emeritus of Art History of the University of Crete and Senior Visiting Scholar at the Onassis Foundation (USA), will present a lecture entitled "The State of El Greco Studies at the Beginning of the Twenty First Century", on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 in the Reading Room of the Archbishop Iakovos Library. Reception at 7pm in the library's foyer followed by the lecture. The lecture is sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA) in conjunction with the Greek Studies Program and the Cantonis Chair of Byzantine Studies at Hellenic College.

The Very Rev. Joachim Cotsonis, PhD, Director of the Archbishop Iakovos Library, presented a scholarly paper at the 10th International Symposium of Byzantine Sigillography held at the University of Ioannina, Greece, on October 1-3, 2009. The paper was entitled "The Image of the Doubting Thomas on an Unpublished Seal of the Sixth Century". It was co-authored by Dr. John Nesbitt of Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard Center for Byzantine Studies.

The Archbishop Iakovos Collection has loaned the icon of St. John the Theologian, c. 1800, to the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) of the American Bible Society in New York for the special exhibition and reception in honor of the visit of the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Batrtholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome. The exhibit, entitled "Scripture, Image, Life: Orthodox Christianity", will continue through the 24th of January 2010.