Distinguished Speakers Set For Orthodox Conference
CLEVELAND, August 28 -- Orthodox Christian Laity (OCL) has announced that the agenda and speakers for its 16th Annual Conference have been finalized. The Conference, will highlight OCL’s Inter-Orthodox Cooperation Initiative, and will be held here October 31 – November 2 at the Cleveland Marriot Downtown Hotel at Key Center.

Among the distinguished speakers from various Orthodox jurisdictions are: Archbishop Nathaniel of the Romanian Diocese of the Orthodox Church in America; V. Rev. Fr. Thomas Hopko, Dean Emeritus of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theology Seminary; V. Rev. Fr. Peter Gillquist, Director of Missions and Evangelism for the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of America; Rev. Fr. Alexander Abramov, representative of the Patriarchate of Moscow; V. Rev. Fr. Anthony Scott, founder of Stewardship Advocates, a fund development specialist and Mr. Eric Namee, President of the Virginia H. Farah Foundation.

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Invitations for the Conference have gone to more than 300 active Orthodox Christian ministries and all the canonical bishops in America. Faithful Orthodox Christians from all jurisdictions are cordially invited to attend this informative meeting.

OCL’s Inter-Orthodox Cooperation Initiative is intended to continue the work of the Conference of Orthodox Bishops held in 1994 in Ligonier, Pennsylvania. That Conference was convened by the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the Americas (SCOBA) and brought together twenty-nine bishops in an historic first assembly of all the Orthodox Bishops of the United States and Canada. The bishops at the Ligonier Conference, representing the entire spectrum of Orthodox Christian Churches, asserted: “We believe that the Orthodox of North America – bishops, clergy and laity – are called to think together, plan together, and work together…”

The Cleveland Conference is intended to bring together the ministries and faithful of the same spectrum of Orthodox Churches, and act upon, and in accordance with, the vision and powerful admonishment expressed by the bishops at their historic Ligonier gathering.

Further details about the Cleveland Conference can be found at www.ocl.org.