Sentences with phrase «hierarchs in»

Metropolitan Savas (Zembillas), the Greek Orthodox hierarch in Pittsburgh, has thousands of dedicated Facebook followers.

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As an Orthodox Christian definitely in the ecumenical «left wing» of my church, I can not speak for all my co-confessionalists; but I can record my own shame that so few Orthodox hierarchs have even recognized the remarkable gesture made by John Paul II in Ut Unum Sint (1995), in openly soliciting advice on how to understand his office (even indeed the limits of its jurisdiction), or been moved to respond with anything like comparable Christian charity.

«His efforts were the most explicit attempt by any Orthodox hierarch to join with evangelicals and other conservatives in a common social agenda,» North Park University professor Brad Nassif said of Jonah's nearly four - year tenure as primate.

First, the bishop (or, in Dionysius» term, the hierarch), who stands at the peak of the hierarchy, receives his authority and graces directly from Jesus.

Thus, the hierarch shares directly in the priesthood of Christ and therefore enjoys the fullness of the priesthood in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, but he is infinitely far from encompassing the totality of Christ in himself.

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department of External Church Relations for the Moscow Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, called on the «world community to join efforts in order to find the abducted hierarchs as soon as possible,» and prayed for peace to be «re-established in the ancient land of Syria and for Christianity to keep developing there.»

20:25 f.) It is no secret that in the history of the church the behavior of its hierarchs has not always been distinguishable from that of the gentiles.

As far as Byzantine Orthodoxy is concerned, as late as 1963 a popular book by a popular hierarch of English origin concluded its section on marriage with the unadorned statement, «Artificial methods of birth control are forbidden in the Orthodox Church.»

Here — in the Figure at the top — what we see are that white males are decidedly more «skeptical» about climate change risks only among «hierarch individualists.»