The oldest and most illustrative document that refers to the act of birth of the church is the marble carving above the entrance door which reads as follows: "With the will of the Father and the help of the Son and by the action of the Holy Spirit, it is I, the servant of God, our Lord and master, Jesus Christ the Saviour and prayerful to the Trinity, I, Vasile the Voivode with the mercy of God, ruler of the principality of Moldova and with our lady Tudosca and our children, God's gift, Ion voivode, Maria and Ruxandra, raised this holy prayer in the name of the Three Holy
Hierarchs, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom.
Naive about organizational power, they appealed to
hierarchs' good will and reasonableness.
How are we to be spared from the reigning
hierarchs of postmodern theory and empirico-critical doctrines?
Manolis, an active participant in the life of the Orthodox Church in America for more than forty years, deserves our gratitude for bringing together and publishing for the first time acts and documents, epistles and minutes, as well as correspondence between
hierarchs and diplomats, all of which bear on the life, problems, and work of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in the first four decades of the twentieth century.
Chances for war abound, from our own war against the Terror Masters, to the oft-stated intention by the
hierarchs in the People's Republic of China to annex Taiwan, to the long-simmering conflict between India and Pakistan, to the tribal massacres in black Africa.
Instead, directors of public corporations are best regarded as "mediating
hierarchs," who are accountable to no particular constituency of the firm.
Sadkowski argues that in order to counter the challenges, from the latter decades of the nineteenth century, from those advocating for a nation based upon legal equality rather than ethnic and cultural identity, as well as from other efforts at economic, social, and political reform, Catholic
hierarchs and priests persuaded their parishioners that only loyal Roman Catholics could be considered "true Poles." Convincing the people of this truth was essential to the church's maintenance of its hegemony in the years of modernization and industrialization.
Most significant, it was a deliberate attempt by Peter to gradually silence the voices of those Great Russian
hierarchs who so vehemently opposed the extension of his Westernizing reform measures to the Church.
With the exception of paragraph 27, where, in the name of the Christ-Church (man-woman) symbolism, it categorically rejects the possibility of priesthood for women, this letter makes a clean sweep of all the ready-made cliches which Roman Catholic and Orthodox
hierarchs have been repeating for generations and proves that the evolution of the role of women in modern public life has brought about changes in the church's mentality.
Finally, he points out that the canons of the councils were blatantly ignored by local
hierarchs in a number of instances (the problem of simony being the most long lasting).
Other days he suggests are Ascension Day (movable), the day honouring Apostolos Varnavas founder of the Cypriot Church on June 11, Three
Hierarchs, a holiday honouring three people made saints by the Greek Orthodox Church for their contribution to Christian theology, which is marked on January 30, and the Feast of the Saint of community or parish.
The increasingly bitter spat between the Sindh ruling
hierarchs and the federal interior minister over the Karachi airport terrorist strike is stupefying.
In the late sixteenth century many
hierarchs of the Kyivan Church, including the Metropolitan of Kyiv, faced with poorly educated clergy, the loss of support from Ottoman-controlled Constantinople, Protestant and Roman Catholic (mainly Jesuit) proselytic activity in their territory, and a rising political and ecclesiastical power in Muscovy, turned towards the Bishop of Rome in order to establish support for their own Ruthenian Church.
To ease this tension, I'm urging studio
hierarchs to read the April issue of the Harvard Business Review, which is entirely devoted to the f-word.
