Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!ukma!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: RXC106@psuvm.psu.edu Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Needed: Eastern Orthodox Resource Centers Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 90 21:25:28 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Penn State University Lines: 93 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , jhpb@granjon.garage.att.com says: > >Tony Dawson wrote: > > Also, any recommendations regarding books, journal > articles etc. would be most helpful. > > >There are Eastern rites within the Roman Catholic Church. You could try Ack! Not again. There are Eastern Catholic _Churches_ in communion with the Roman Catholic Church. These Churches are complete in themselves. Their visible link is the Pope; their invisible link is the Catholic Faith which is neither Roman nor Eastern. >contacting their various seminaries in Rome, or the Congregation in Rome Don't bother. >concerned with the various Eastern rite affairs. There are also Eastern >rite dioceses in this country that might be able to help. The >Byzantine-Ruthenians, for instance, use the Liturgy of St. John >Chrysostom. You can get addresses from your local chancery office, >undoubtedly. > >Joe Buehler The groups of Byzantine Catholics in the USA with established hierarchies (in order of # of faithful) are the Ruthenian, Ukrainian, Melkite, and Romanian. All these groups use primarily the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. Various addresses are as follows: Ruthenian Metropolitan Province (Byzantine Catholic Church of America) Archbishop's Chancery 3605 Perrysville Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15214 Ukrainian Metropolitan Province Archbishop's Chancery 827 N. Franklin St. Philadelphia, PA 19123 Melkite Greek-Catholic Eparchy of Newton Office of Educational Services 19 Dartmouth St. West Newton, MA 02165 CATECHETICAL MATERIALS & OTHER RESOURCES: (including many EXCELLENT books) God With Us Publications [Byzantine Catholic] 225 Olivia St. McKees Rocks, PA 15136 Eparchy of Passaic Office of Religious Education [Byzantine Catholic] 1400 Church St. Rahway, NJ 07065 St. Vladimir Seminary Press Bookstore / Orthodox Christian Education Commission 575 Scarsdale Road [ Orthodox Church in America ] Crestwood, NY 10707 Conciliar Press [Evangelical Orthodox Mission - Antiochian Orth. Archdiocese] P.O. Box 106 Mt. Hermon, CA 95041-0106 The last is particularly notable: it is the publishing arm of the branch of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese, the Evangelical Orthodox Mission , which consists mainly of former evangelical/fundamentalist Protestants (many of whom were prominent leaders of Campus Crusade for Christ) who, in their search for "the New Testament Church," found the Orthodox Church and eventually were accepted into it with over 2000 of their "flock." Now they minister pri- marily to that same audience of which they were once a part. Much of their publishing is "apologetic" in nature, and they publish an excellent quarterly, "Again," which is geared to the Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike. One more plug: the best (in my and many others' opinions) Byzantine Christian (Catholic or Orthodox) newspaper in the USA: the bi-weekly _Horizons_: Horizons Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma 1900 Carlton Road Parma, OH 44134 Any of the above should serve as excellent resources to the Byzantine Churches in America - the remedy for what's wrong in America today. []---------------------------------------------------------------------------[] [] /// Rich Custer / rxc106@psuvm.psu.edu / Penn State University [] [] /// | DISCLAIMER: "I didn't do it. | [] []\\\/// Make up your own | Nobody saw me do it. | Ja Rusyn byl, [] [] \XX/ mind...Amiga! | You can't prove anything!" | jesm' y budu! []