{"id":45137,"date":"2016-06-01T09:09:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=45137"},"modified":"2016-06-01T09:09:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T09:09:48","slug":"mar-yulios-meets-ocp-delegate-seraphima-in-dallas-helps-boost-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/?p=45137","title":{"rendered":"Mar Yulios meets OCP Delegate Seraphima in Dallas, helps boost ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mar-Yulios-Seraphima.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45138\" src=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mar-Yulios-Seraphima-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Mar Yulios, Seraphima\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mar-Yulios-Seraphima-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Mar-Yulios-Seraphima.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">DALLAS, Texas: Ahmedabad Diocese Metropolitan His Grace Pulikkottil Dr Geevarghese Mar Yulios met with Ms Seraphima Iliay Ioanna Shagoury, (OCP delegate and Executive Coordinator of its Foundation in North America). The Metropolitan and the OCP delegate (a faithful of St John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church, Euless, Texas), held talks on a number of issues.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">This weekend, Dr Mar Yulios and Seraphima have planned a mutual visit to the St Gregorios Indian Orthodox Church, Houston, to celebrate the liturgy and spread the news about OCP. The Metropolitan will also pay a visit to the ailing Seraphima\u2019s mother. She has also been entrusted with the responsibility of transporting the vestments for Mar Yulios while he is on his flight, which Seraphima considers to be a \u201ctruly unexpected and deeply responsible honour.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Dr Mar Yulios is presently on a visit to the United States until the first week of July 2016.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Ms Shagoury currently resides in Irving, Texas, and her current studies and projects include Coptic Language, Coptic Chant, and the promotion of united Orthodox Witness between the Eastern Orthodox Churches and Coptic Orthodox Church in the greater Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. She has charted and executed ecclesiastical patterns for fillet crochet during the past 25 years, and maintains an interest in both early 20th Century styles of popular music and needlework.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society (OCP) is a society for the promotion of Orthodox Christian unity and faith established under the Travancore-Cochin Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies Registration Act of 1955.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">OCP accords equal importance to Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches; according to its mission statement, it \u201cfirmly believes that both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches are the true heirs to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Christ, which was the Church of the apostles and the Holy Fathers\u201d and \u201cLet us unite together, let us pray together and let us act together for the Unity of Orthodoxy.\u201dThe society\u2019s slogan is \u201cThe United Orthodox Christian Witness\u201d.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS, Texas: Ahmedabad Diocese Metropolitan His Grace Pulikkottil Dr Geevarghese Mar Yulios met with Ms Seraphima Iliay Ioanna Shagoury, (OCP delegate and Executive Coordinator of its Foundation in North America). &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ecumenical-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45139,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45137\/revisions\/45139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/malankaraorthodox.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}