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PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
July 1, 1997
Bishop Isaiah Named President of HC/HC
NEW YORK - His Eminence Archbishop
Spyridon, effective July 1, 1997, appointed His Grace Bishop Isaiah
of Denver to serve as President of the Hellenic College/Holy Cross
School of Theology.
This action was taken after much study
and in order to assist the School in its continuing mission to
provide the Archdiocese with well trained priests. This appointment
will bring a positive resolution and conclusion to a series of
year-long internal conflicts and difficulties, and will renew and
reinvigorate the School's vital and sacred mission to foster and
nurture priestly vocations, which are now in greater demand than in
virtually any other era of our Holy Archdiocese of America. Other
changes have been undertaken in order to facilitate and enhance the
work of the new President.
In making this announcement, His
Eminence Archbishop Spyridon thanked the Rev. Dr. Protopresbyter
Alkiviadis Calivas for his dedicated service as President of
Hellenic College/Holy Cross. Father Calivas will continue as a
professor of Liturgics at the Seminary, a position which he has held
since his service to the School began in 1978.
His Eminence
also announced that he accepted the resignation of the Rev. Dr.
Protopresbyter George D. Dragas as Dean of Holy Cross School of
Theology, and thanked Father Dragas for submitting his resignation
to the Office of the Archbishop in order to allow His Eminence
freedom to resolve the current situation at the Seminary. Father
Dragas will also continue as professor at the
Seminary.
[ GOARCH - www.goarch.org/en/news/releases/articles/release7149.asp - July 1, 1997 ]
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