News & Updates : Year: 2023

• REV. DR. EUGEN J. PENTIUC APPOINTED DEAN OF HOLY CROSS

  Rev. Dr. Eugen J. Pentiuc has been appointed Dean of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, effective January 1, 2024. His appointment follows an external international search coupled with a decanal nomination by the Faculty of Holy Cross. Fr. Pentiuc joined the Holy Cross faculty in 1998, became tenured Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages in 2009, and since 2018 has been Archbishop Demetrios Professor of Biblical Studies and Christian Origins. Fr. Pentiuc, with forty years of priestly experience in Romania, Israel, Germany ,and United States, is a Protopresbyter of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. He holds...

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• DR. PATITSAS ATTENDS WORLD PREMIERE OF HIS FIRST FILM

  Dr. Timothy Patitsas, Interim Dean of Hellenic College and Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, attended the world premiere of his short documentary, Amphilochios: Saint of Patmos, at the Houston Greek Film Festival in Houston, Texas, on Saturday, November 18, 2023. The film is the first production from Beauty First Films, co-founded by Dr. Patitsas and Thomaida Hudanish, and was an official selection of the festival. Amphilochios is a thirty-minute documentary exploring the life and spiritual legacy of the beloved twentieth-century saint, filmed over the course of the first celebration of his April...

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• REV. DR. EUGEN J. PENTIUC INTERVIEWED IN JERUSALEM BY TRINITAS TV

  Rev. Dr. Eugen J. Pentiuc, Archbishop Demetrios Chair of Biblical Studies and Christian Origins and Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Holy Cross, was interviewed recently by Trinitas TV in Jerusalem, where he was a scholar-in-residence at Ecole Biblique. The program was titled "Fr. Eugen J. Pentiuc: A Life Dedicated to the Study of Holy Scriptures.” Watch the program (subtitled in English) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kDgKPnRdc8&t=1312s&ab_channel=TRINITASTV Trinitas TV, a ministry of the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchate, is the only 24/7 Orthodox television channel in the world. The producer and interviewer was Mara Ionescu, who spoke with Fr. Pentiuc in the courtyard...

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• LILLY ENDOWMENT AWARDS $1.125 MILLION TO HOLY CROSS FOR THE SCRIPTORIUM PROGRAM

  Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology has received a grant of $ 1,125,995 from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish The Scriptorium: Preaching and Teaching in a Digital Age.  The program is being funded through Lilly Endowment’s Compelling Preaching Initiative. The aim of the initiative is to foster and support preaching that inspires, encourages and guides people to come to know and love God and to live out their Christian faith more fully. The winning proposal The Scriptorium: Preaching and Teaching the Word of God in a Digital Age was designed and written by Rev. Dr. Eugen J. Pentiuc,...

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• DR. JANE GOODALL SPEAKS AT INAUGURAL HUFFINGTON ECUMENICAL INSTITUTE EVENT

  On September 27, Dr. Jane Goodall engaged in a conversation with Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, Executive Director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute, sharing her thoughts on the power of  ecumenical encounter and dialogue in shaping a better future for our planet. The talk, which inaugurated the “Ecumenical Conversations Series” of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute, was attended by members of the administration and faculty, as well as students and families of the Hellenic College Holy Cross community and beyond. Fr. John asked Dr. Goodall about the ways in which religion shapes her worldview and how religion itself should be shaped by...

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• HCHC’S INCOMING ENROLLMENT ONE OF THE LARGEST IN ITS HISTORY

  Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology is delighted to announce the admission of 93 incoming students, one of the highest entering classes since the School's founding 86 years ago. Hellenic College welcomed an incoming class of 40 students, twice the size of last year's, impressively increasing the total number of undergraduates to 64--almost a 50% increase. We hope for a similar surge next year since we have already received many applications. Similarly, the entering class of Holy Cross has grown by 71% when measured in terms of 53 full-time-equivalent students, leading to a total enrollment of 97--a...

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• PRESIDENTIAL SEARCH CLOSES SEPTEMBER 14

  In an effort to ensure exceptional long-term leadership for our esteemed and beloved School, the search committee of the Hellenic College Holy Cross Board of Trustees has made the decision to end the search for a new president on September 14, 2023, the Feast of Holy Cross. The search committee is currently reviewing the credentials of the candidates who have applied to date.  “The time to develop the pool of high-quality candidates has been essential,” said Fr. Mark Leondis, who chairs the committee. “The HCHC presidential search committee is doing an excellent job, and there is no reason to rush...

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• HCHC RAISES OVER $2.3 MILLION THROUGH CARLOS MATCHING GRANT

  The ninety-day $1 million challenge grant issued by Helen A. Carlos, exemplary Trustee of Hellenic College Holy Cross (HCHC), has greatly exceeded its goal, raising over $2.3 million dollars in total gifts.  Helen’s intention was to inspire others to take an active interest in providing HCHC with the necessary working capital to advance its strategic initiatives of boosting enrollment, ensuring academic excellence, and enhancing spiritual growth. Donors from across America followed Helen’s lead and multiplied her generosity by contributing over $1.3 million. About a thousand people and several Greek Orthodox parishes from across America responded to the Carlos challenge grant...

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• BISHOP JOACHIM OF AMISSOS LECTURES AT DUMBARTON OAKS

  On July 7, 2023, His Grace Bishop Joachim (Cotsonis) of Amissos, PhD, presented a lecture on the iconography of Byzantine lead seals for the graduate students enrolled in the 2023 Byzantine Coins and Seals Summer Program at Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, DC. His Grace is the Director of HCHC’s Archbishop Iakovos Library and Learning Resource Center and an internationally recognized authority on the iconography of lead seals, of which the Dumbarton Oaks 17,000-specimen collection is the largest and most comprehensive in the world. The presentation covered such topics as the various images found on seals,...

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• FR. PENTIUC INTERVIEWED IN JERUSALEM

  Rev. Dr. Eugen J. Pentiuc, Archbishop Demetrios Professor of Biblical Studies and Christian Origins and Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Holy Cross, is in Jerusalem this summer as Scholar-in-Residence at the École Biblique et Archéologique Française (EBAF), one of the premier biblical schools in the world. Fr. Pentiuc was recently interviewed by Fr. Anthony Giambrone, Vice-Director of EBAF, about his long relationship with the school and his research and many publications, past and future: https://www.ebaf.edu/en/

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