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Welcome to the Orthodox Education website.

Orthodox Education is a pan-Orthodox ministry which seeks to encourage and promote the continuing spiritual and theological education of the members of the Oriental Orthodox communion of Orthodox Churches in the UK. We also hope to provide opportunities for those friends, enquirers and members of other Churches who are interested in our ancient Orthodox Tradition to experience and understand it more completely for themselves.

Orthodox Education is supported and encouraged by the Council of Oriental Orthodox Churches in the UK, with whose blessing it operates. The member Churches of the Council include: the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Church, the Indian Orthodox Church and the British Orthodox Church.

This website will draw together and promote those educational events organised by the member Churches of the C.O.O.C., and will publicise them here. It will also publish articles and resources which might be of interest to those seeking a deeper understanding of our Orthodox Faith and Tradition. In due course we hope to also be able to produce and publish audio and video resources.

The first such event is an Oriental Orthodox Education Day, which has been organised for Saturday, 9th October at the Nevart Gulbenkian Hall of the St. Sarkis Armenian Orthodox Church in Kensington. There are comprehensive details about this event here. The topic for this first event is How Our Fathers Read the Bible.

Orthodox Education would also like to recommend the English language Bible Study conducted by the Primate of the Armenian Orthodox in the UK, Father Vahan Hovhanessian. This takes place each Tuesday evening at 7:30pm at the Nevart Gulbenkian Hall of the St. Sarkis Armenian Orthodox Church in Kensington. There are more details here.