Latest News and Forthcoming Events
On Saturday, 12 May, Father Ioan Sauca, Director of the Ecumenical Institute of Bossey, Geneva, will give two lectures for the IOCS Community Day: ‘Orthodox Laity: Assistants or Con-Celebrants in Church Services?’ and ‘The Church Beyond our Boundaries’. The Community Day will take place at Wesley House (The Dining Hall), Jesus Lane, Cambridge.For more details, click here.
The Institute broadcasts from Mount Athos! Our former Chairman and current Director, Metropolitan Kallistos, our Principal, Professor David Frost, and our Director of Distance Learning, Dr Constantinos Athanasopoulos, have all given video-interviews for the Monastery of Vatopaidi on the Holy Mountain of Athos in the month of April 2012.You can hear it all (and much more) by visiting www.pemptousia.com, which offers an internet magazine in various languages, direct from the Holy Mountain. For more details, click here.
The Institute's first Community Day took place on Saturday 31 March and was a great success, with more than 50 people participating, a warm and friendly atmosphere, a great community lunch (with great fasting food!) and, of course, most importantly, profound and inspiring talks from Metropolitan Kallistos. We wanted to share this amazing atmosphere with you all by uploading the audio recording of one of the talks, accompanied by a set of nice pictures from the event.
From 7 to 15 March 2012, The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, in collaboration with the University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki and the Metropolitanates of Thessaloniki, of Lagkada, Litis and Rentinis, of Veroia, Naousa and Campania, of Neapoleos and Stavroupoleos, and the Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies at the Monastery of Vlatadon, and with the support of the Friends of Mount Athos, mounted a major International Conference in Thessaloniki to explore and celebrate the life and work of St Gregory Palamas (1296-1359).For more details, click here »
Saturday, 31 March: Metropolitan Kallistos Ware inaugurates the series of IOCS Community Days giving two lectures that address the theme 'What is prayer?' The Community Day will take place at Wesley House (The Dining Hall), Jesus Lane, Cambridge. The fee for the day is £30, which includes lectures, lunch and coffees. For more details, click here »
In the coming fortnight, the Institute's Academic Director, Dr Marcus Plested, will present two papers in the US: one on 'Patristic Pastoral Theology' at the Austin Presbyterian Seminary, Texas, as part of the Williamson Distinguished Scholars Conference, and another one on 'Byzantine Aquinas' at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. We hope to be able to put these lectures up on our website soon.
New and exciting series of Saturday conferences, entitled 'IOCS Community Days', gathering the Orthodox community around renowned speakers of the Orthodox world. These affordable Community Days (£30 per person for the whole day) will be innaugurated by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware on 31 March. For a programme of this year's Community Days click here »
IOCS Principal presents THE WAY Introductory Course to the Orthodox faith to Romanian Patriarchate Catechesis Congress in Bucharest and meets His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of Romania. Congress undertakes to implement THE WAY throughout Romania. Read more »
On 19 June, the Principal of the Institute, Professor David Frost, preached in King's College Chapel on the 400th anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible. Please click here to read his address »
The official launch of THE WAY course took place on Thursday, 7 October 2010, in the Hall of St Botolph's Church without Bishopsgate, London. For more information on THE WAY course published as a DVD/CD boxed set please click here.
Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain, the senior hierarch in the United Kingdom, strongly endorses the Institute's new development into the field of Distance Learning.
Read what the Archbishop has to say
IOCS is creating a 'virtual university' on the internet.Please note that you can now access both the IOCS Video website and the IOCS Moddle website - Distance Learning from one single place: http://distancelearning.iocs.cam.ac.uk/. Here you will find recordings on video or sound, of lectures, symposia, conferences, concerts of religious music and other matters of interest - and let us have your feedback