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HCHC Alum Serves as First Campus Missionary for OCF
learn moreSaid Alexandros Pandazas (MDiv '23), "The point of a missionary is to build up the campus ministry but it's also to build discipleship by experiencing a model of faith. I experienced my model of faith at Holy Cross. I'm constantly referring to my notes and classwork. That's when I realized that all my classes helped prepare me for my work with OCF."
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Dr. James Skedros Named Director of Continuing Education Program
learn moreDr. James C. Skedros has been appointed Director of the newly created Continuing Education Program (CEP) at Hellenic College Holy Cross beginning Sept. 1. Dr. Skedros, The Michael G. and Anastasia Cantonis Professor of Byzantine Studies, has served Holy Cross for almost thirty years in various capacities including interim president of Hellenic College and academic dean of Holy Cross. As Director of CEP, he will report to Fr. Eugen J. Pentiuc, Dean of Holy Cross, and Dr. Nicholas Ganson, Dean of Hellenic College. The Continuing Education Program, suggestively coined Catechism, will serve primarily the learning and ministry needs of individuals...
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Biennial Seminar to Asia Minor Concludes
learn moreEight 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
learn moreOn 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
learn moreHoly 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
learn moreIn 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),...