News & Updates : Month: July 2025

• Biennial Seminar to Asia Minor Concludes

  Eight students recently completed the biennial Asia Minor Travel Seminar, an immersive four-week academic program exploring Hellenic heritage in Asia Minor and the Pontos region, including the Black Sea coast. Funded by HCHC’s New York Life Insurance Company Center for the Study of Hellenism in partnership with the Dean C. Zoë S. Pappas Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies at Stockton University, the seminar was led by HCHC alumnus Professor Tom Papademetriou, Ph.D. of Stockton University. The seminar included students from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Stockton University, University of Toronto, UC Berkeley, Fordham University, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,...

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• Bishop Joachim of Amissos Lectures at Dumbarton Oaks

  On July 18, 2025, His Grace Bishop Joachim (Cotsonis) of Amissos, PhD,  presented a lecture on the iconography of Byzantine lead seals for the group of international graduate  students enrolled in the 2025 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 topics including the images found...

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• Rev. Dr. Demetrios Bathrellos Appointed Associate Professor of Theology

  Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology today announces the  appointment of Rev. Dr. Demetrios Bathrellos as tenure-track Associate Professor of Theology. He will join  Holy Cross Faculty by mid-August and will teach courses in the areas of Dogmatics and Patristics.  Fr. Bathrellos, an Orthodox theologian with international academic experience, was born and raised in  Athens, Greece. He holds dual degrees in classical philology and theology from the University of Athens and  pursued doctoral studies in systematic theology at King’s College London. His PhD research was supervised  by esteemed theologians Professor Colin E. Gunton and Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) and examined...

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• Holy Cross Dean Fr. Eugen J. Pentiuc, Co-Editor of The Ancient Christian Study Bible

  In the summer of 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP) issued a contract for  a new study Bible entitled The Ancient Christian Study Bible (ACSB), with the following Editorial Board:   Editors-in-Chief:  Fr. Eugen J. Pentiuc, Archbishop Demetrios Distinguished Professor of Biblical Studies and Christian  Origins and Dean of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA Paul M. Blowers, Dean E. Walker Professor of Church History, Emmanuel Christian Seminary, Milligan  University, TN  Associate Editors:  Athanasios Despotis (Bonn University: New Testament), Mary Farag (Princeton Theological Seminary: Early  Christian Studies), David Stark (Faulkner University: Hermeneutics), Agnethe Siquans (University of Vienna:  Old Testament),...

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