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Treatise on the Married Episcopate

March 02, 2026

by Denis M. Garrison In the Orthodox Church in the New World, since early in the twentieth century, the concept of the married episcopate has been an important and urgent issue. The question has arisen with increasing frequency and force: Is it allowable to elect and consecrate married Priests to

An unpublished escape to Byzantium

Filioque orthodoxy inquisition

November 24, 2025

The anonymous Calabrian refugee of the Greek Vatican Code 316 Cardinal Giovanni Mercati had reported in 1923 that the codex Vaticanus graecus 316 contained in last sheet, the 167v, the story, or rather its background, of an escape from Calabria of an anonymous Christian of the Orthodox faith, no

On Clerical Marriage and Paternity

Middleages-Christianity orthodoxy Italo-greeks

April 29, 2017

Question: Does life agree with nature or not? Answer: If life agrees with nature and never rejects it, also nature agrees with life. God said to mankind: Grow and multiply; therefore also priests since they are human beings, come to maturity owing to that blessing. If it lets them grow up