During the Eastern Orthodox Laity’s (OCL) 25th Anniversary laity conference this past weekend, a series of panels focused the history, present state, and future of Eastern Orthodoxy in North America. The OCL, founded in 1988, “is committed to establishment of an administratively and canonically unified self-governing Orthodox Church in the United States.”
On Saturday, October 27 the OCL’s conference took place in the form of three panels at George Washington University-Mount Vernon campus entitled, “Our Orthodox Past,” explaining the history of Orthodox peoples in the Americas, “Our Orthodox Present,” on the state of the church and the issues it faces today, and “Our Orthodox Future,” a panel on the future of Orthodoxy in America and how it can surmount the problems ahead.
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