Summer School 2013
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Latest News and Forthcoming Events

Please click here to listen to Dr Marcus Plested's latest interview with Ancient Faith Radio relating to our forthcoming Summer School on 'Angels: Heavenly and Fallen' (14-19 July 2013)

Appeal to to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary on behalf of kidnapped Syrian Bishops. Please click here to see the letter which our Principal, Professor David Frost, sent to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary, regarding the kidnapping of Metropolitan Paul Yazigi, the Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Aleppo, and Metropolitan Youhanna Ibrahim, the Syriac Orthodox Metropolitan of Aleppo. We urge all our friends to also write to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary with similar pleas.

We are pleased to announce a Colloquium organised by our Institute on Dr Marcus Plested's latest book on 'Orthodox Readings of Aquinas', taking place on 30 May 2013. You will find more information about the event here. All are welcome.

Community Day 20th April: Change of Venue. Please note that the forthcoming Community Day on 20th April will take place at the Institute's new premises. The address is: 25-27 High Street, Chesterton, Cambridge CB4 1ND

For full details on how to reach us, please check our Contact us page.

We look forward to receiving Revd Professor Andrew Louth who will be speaking on St John of Damascus. For more details about our Community Days and how to register, please check the series poster.

The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies has engaged a master iconographer of the Prosopon school of iconology, Nikita Andrejev, and is very pleased to announce an Intensive Icon Painting Workshop, which will take place between 2-8 June 2013. The workshop will be organised at the Institute's newly acquired premises at 25-27 High Street Chesterton, Cambridge, CB4 1ND. Places are limited, so do contact us soon if you wish to make a booking. For more details please click here »

IOCS Community Days: Dr Sebastian Brock on St Ephraim the Syrian - Session 1 (heading) The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies is pleased to offer a recording of Dr Sebastian Brock's first lecture on St Ephraim the Syrian as part of our 'Meeting the Fathers' Community Days. The talk was given in Cambridge, on 16 February 2013.

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Please click here to listen to our Academic Director, Dr Marcus Plested's talk on 'Aquinas, between East and West'. The talk was given for the Oxford Orthodox Christian Student Society and the Oxford Graduate Christian Union, on Monday, 4 March 2013.

Palamas House
IOCS acquires new home! The Institute is delighted to announce the purchase of own premises at 25-27 High Street Chesterton, Cambridge, CB4 1ND. To learn more about this major development in the life of the Institute, please read the Principal's letter 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 »