St. Phoebe Center for the Deaconess
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Reflections on the Ordination of Deaconess Angelic in Zimbabwe, June 10, 2024
St. Phoebe Center Chair Dr. Carrie Frederick Frost attended the ordination of Deaconess Angelic Molen in Harare, Zimbabwe on May 2, 2024. In this event she will shared her photos and reflections from the ordination and from her time with the Orthodox community in Zimbabwe.
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EXPLORING THE NEED FOR DIACONAL MINISTRY AND THE FEMALE DIACONATE, May 19, 2024
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Does the Church really need a female diaconate? Couldn’t lay people just do this type of work? These are questions that have been frequently posed to the St. Phoebe Center. While the St. Phoebe Center wholeheartedly supports lay ministry in the Church, we also acknowledge a place for ordained ministry as well. This seminar focused on the question of the diaconate broadly, as well as the female ...
Newly Ordained Deaconess Angelic Speaks about her Roles
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Recorded a few minutes after the Divine Liturgy that included her ordination, here Deaconess Angelic of Zimbabwe tells of the roles she will have and needs she will serve as a deaconess.
Responding to the Critics
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On March 7, 2015, the St. Phoebe Center hosted an evening of “responding to the critics.” Grounded in sound scholarship and theology, panelists from our Board and Advisory Board will addressed a series of common objections or concerns around having deaconesses in the Orthodox Church. Panelists: Fr. Radu Bordeianu, St. Phoebe Center Advisory Board Member Dr. Valerie Karras, St. Phoebe Center Adv...
GIRLS’ PARTICIPATION IN THE LITURGY
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Co-sponsored with Axia Women, this third event in a series will focued on integrating girls into our liturgical celebration by addressing this issue from various perspectives-from those who plan and coordinate this ministry, to the perspectives of parents, and to the perspective of clergy on how this ministry has been received in their parishes and its value for the parish. The event was modera...
Ms. Marilyn Rouvelas is Presented with the St. Phoebe Award
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On November 11, 2023, the St. Phoebe Center was pleased to present the occasional St. Phoebe Award to Ms. Marilyn Rouvelas for her many contributions to the effort to see women ordained as deaconesses, including editing the seminal volumes "Deaconesses: A Tradition for Today and Tomorrow" along with John Chryssavgis, Niki Papageorgiou, and Petros Vassiliadis and "Remembering and Reclaiming Diak...
Can Women go in the Altar?: Addressing the Myths around Ordaining Deaconesses
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Moderator: Ms. Kristina Baktis Panelists: Dr. Valerie Karras Rev. Dr. Philip Zymaris Dr. Paul Ladouceur This session engages with concerns and incorrect teachings about the revival of the ordained order of deaconesses in the Orthodox Church, addressing such issues as: the unfounded but wide-spread belief that women are not allowed in the altar, lingering and theologically indefensible connectio...
How to Restore the Ordained Order of Deaconesses Today
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Moderators: Ms. Ann Marie and Mr. Gust Mecera Speakers: Dr. Carrie Frederick Frost and Rev. Dr. Perry Hamalis Respondents: His Eminence Metropolitan Nathanael Dr. James Skedros Dr. Elizabeth Prodromou Speakers presented “Proposed Guidelines for the Revival of the Ordained Female Diaconate in the Orthodox Church Today," a historical document published by the St. Phoebe Center that offers a possi...
Calls for Deaconesses and Women's Ministry in the Church
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Moderator: Ms. Sara Tsugranis Panelists: Dr. Teva Regule Ms. Sophia Kyrou Dr. Ioana Popa The call to revive the female diaconate is not new in the life of the Orthodox Church. This session presented the numerous calls to do so from the modern period. It also highlighted the many ways that lay women are currently serving in diaconal-type capacities. While acknowledging that these ministries are ...
Deaconesses for the Orthodox Church Today: the History, the Need, and the Future
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Greetings: St. Phoebe Center Founder Ann Marie Mecera Opening Prayer and Welcome: His Eminence Metropolitan Nathanael of Chicago Welcome from Holy Cross Hellenic College: Dr. Jim Skedros "Deaconesses for the Orthodox Church Today: The History, the Need, and the Future" Keynote: Dr. Carrie Frederick Frost Respondent: Archdeacon John Chryssavgis The keynote briefly reviews the history of deacones...
Church of Our Granddaughters: An Evening with Author Carrie Frederick Frost
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St. Phoebe Center Chair Carrie Frederick Frost spoke and conversed about her new book Church of Our Granddaughters. From the publisher: Church of Our Granddaughters is a visionary work of theology and ethics that looks hopefully and lovingly two generations into the future, imagining the Orthodox Church’s practices and realities rightfully aligned with its core theological teachings and truths ...
Integrating Girls (& boys) into the Liturgy: How and Why
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This event sponsored by Axia Women included the word of liturgical scholar Dr. Teva Regule, board member of the St. Phoebe Center, on the importance and value of integrating children girls and boys into the liturgical life of the Orthodox Church.
Myth-busting: Addressing the Myths around Ordaining Deaconesses
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This session directly engaged with concerns and and incorrect teachings about the revival of the ordained order of deaconesses in the Orthodox Church, including such issues as: the unfounded but wide-spread belief that women are not allowed in the santuary, lingering and theologically indefensible connections between women’s bodies and impurity, and “slippery slope” concerns about deaconesses l...
Liturgical Service by Girls and Women
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Greater participation of girls and women in the liturgical assembly of the Orthodox Church benefits the entire community. This event, held on June 25, 2023, and co-sponsored with Axia Women, offered the perspective of Orthodox women who have experienced these ministries as girl altar servers and tonsured readers or chanters. Topics explored were how to encourage the expansion of these ministrie...
Legacy of Rhodes - St. Phoebe Center
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May 9, 2023 This St. Phoebe Center Zoom meeting, co-sponsored with Holy Cross Orthodox Press, examined the legacy of the Rhodes Consultation, which affirmed deaconesses in the Orthodox Church today. In 1988, Ecumenical Patriarch Demetrios I convened a conference in Rhodes, Greece on “The Place of the Woman in the Orthodox Church,” that included the recommendation that the Church ordain women as...
Aristotle Papanikolaou: Hopes for DeaconessesToday
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Aristotle Papanikolaou: Hopes for DeaconessesToday
Panel Discussion, The Call to Revive the Female Diaconate: 30 Years after Rhodes
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Panel Discussion, The Call to Revive the Female Diaconate: 30 Years after Rhodes
Teva Regule, "The Female Diaconate in the Orthodox Church?"
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Teva Regule, "The Female Diaconate in the Orthodox Church?"
Metropolitan +KALLISTOS Ware on Renewing the Male and Female Diaconate
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Metropolitan KALLISTOS Ware on Renewing the Male and Female Diaconate
Panel, The State of the Diaconate Today
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Panel, The State of the Diaconate Today
Testing the Spirts
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Testing the Spirts
Panel, Men and Women Engaged in Diaconal Work Today
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Panel, Men and Women Engaged in Diaconal Work Today
Engaging Clergy and Faithful on Diaconate
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Engaging Clergy and Faithful on Diaconate
Valerie A. Karras and Brian Patrick Mitchell, Difficulties and Benefits of Ordaining Women Deacons
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Valerie A. Karras and Brian Patrick Mitchell, Difficulties and Benefits of Ordaining Women Deacons
Deacon Dr. Perry Hamalis: Hopes for Deaconesses Today
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Deacon Dr. Perry Hamalis: Hopes for Deaconesses Today
Dr. Ashley Purpura: Hopes for Deaconesses Today
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Dr. Ashley Purpura: Hopes for Deaconesses Today
Dr. Elizabeth Prodromou: Hopes for Deaconesses Today
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Dr. Elizabeth Prodromou: Hopes for Deaconesses Today
History of Deaconesses by Dr. Helen Creticos Theodoropolous
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History of Deaconesses by Dr. Helen Creticos Theodoropolous
Dr. Spyridoula Athanasopoulou Kypriou: Hopes for Deaconesses Today
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Dr. Spyridoula Athanasopoulou Kypriou: Hopes for Deaconesses Today
Fr. Dr. John Njoroge: Hopes for Deaconesses Today
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Fr. Dr. John Njoroge: Hopes for Deaconesses Today

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  • @costasndambu9435
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    Hi, there. My name is Constantin-Roland Ndambu, orthodox christian from the church of Kananga, Metropolis of Kananga and Great Kasaï, patriarchate of Alexandria, Africa. I would like to know, if possible, the reasons that are motivating young ladies to be deaconesses in the church nowadays. Very recently, there has been a lady who got ordained as Deaconess in my church of Africa, in Zimbabwe ( I am from D.R.Congo) by Métropolitain Seraphim and, that has risen controversies and embarrassment in the community. However, what matters here is not the ordination of a female servant, but the fact that the Bishop has not shown real convincing arguments ans fact motivating that devine service. He only justified himself with a supposedly synodal permission, which he might get from the Patriarch Theodorou II . Less convincing arguments lacking canonical tracts. I am here to get some light about the service. Christ is risen ! Χριστός Ανέστη ! Kristo wakubika ! Christ est ressuscité !