Join us to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of Orthodox Christian Laity in the Metro Atlanta area where we will feature the impressive progress of the Atlanta Inter-Orthodox Parish Association (AIOPA), an initiative of the Committee for Canonical Regional Planning of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the USA (AOB). AIOPA consists of clergy and laity representatives from all Orthodox parishes in the Atlanta area whose purpose is to effectively facilitate and maintain pan-Orthodox parish-to-parish communications, activities and cooperation (the “One Church Initiative”).
Since the Assembly of Bishops is a transitional body, its mandate is to make itself obsolete by developing a proposal for the canonical organization of the Church in the United States of America, so that the AOB will be succeeded by a governing Synod of a united Church in the United States. For this reason, OCL authored “A Declaration for Orthodox Christian Unity in America” in June 2022, which will be the topic of a panel discussion at the annual conference. Following the panel discussion, an in-person special presentation by researcher Alexei Krindatch who will present results of his study: The “New Traditional” in a Most Traditional Church: How the Pandemic Has Reshaped American Orthodox Christian Churches. What Do Lay People Think about It?
The event will be hosted by the Sts. Constantine & Helen Church, Lilburn GA.
Registration is required. Admission is free. The original event link.
A subset of the participants to the OCL’s 35th annual conference.
Fr. Christos Mars, Fr. Anthony Salzman, Toni Taggart and Florian Ion presented on October 15th 2022 the latest on the plans and progress made by the Atlanta Inter-Orthodox Parish Association since its inception on March 17th 2022. The presentation was made possible by the invitation from Orthodox Christian Laity (www.ocl.org) a national, Pan-Orthodox, 501(c)3 non-profit, educational association, incorporated in the State of Illinois on March 17, 1988, for the purpose of advancing the renewal of the Orthodox Christian Church in the United States, that held its 35th annual conference in Atlanta, GA.