{"id":293846,"date":"2020-10-08T17:32:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T14:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=293846"},"modified":"2020-10-08T17:32:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T14:32:02","slug":"2021-set-aside-as-year-of-youth-in-us-orthodox-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/2021-set-aside-as-year-of-youth-in-us-orthodox-diaspora\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 set aside as Year of Youth in US Orthodox Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America (ACOB-US) <a href=\"http:\/\/assemblyofbishops.org\/news\/2020\/assembly-of-bishops-convenes-digitally-declares-2021-the-year-of-the-youth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">declared<\/a> the year 2021 as the Year of the Youth. The decision was made at the annual meeting of the assembly, which took place online on October 6-7.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The goal is to recognize the youth as the future of the Church. \u201cOur young people need us to collaborate on their behalf, and I am grateful for the work being done to expedite and innovate new ministries,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/assemblyofbishops.org\/news\/2020\/keynote-address-of-archbishop-elpidophoros-to-the-october-2020-assembly-of-bishops-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> His Eminence Elpidophoros, the Greek Archbishop of America.<\/p>\n<p>The Archbishop added he wanted the action \u201cto go beyond words and platitudes and really do something special for our youth&#8230; something that looks to the future with realism and faith in our increasingly complex and complicated world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first measure towards this goal is creating a new Youth Agency.<\/p>\n<p>38 out of the 51 the representatives of the Canonical Orthodox Churches from the United States attended the online meeting. This was the first meeting chaired by Archbishop Elpidophoros.<\/p>\n<p>Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, the ACOB-US Executive Committee has met on a weekly basis. Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan Nicolae of the Two Americas is a member of the Executive Committee and the Chairman of the Committee for Canonical Regional Planning.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of ACOB-US (Screenshot)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America (ACOB-US) declared the year 2021 as the Year of the Youth. The decision was made at the annual meeting of the assembly, which took place online on October 6-7. The goal is to recognize the youth as the future of the Church. \u201cOur&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":293837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[19332,20049,17084,2016,7548,15556,10386,8611],"class_list":["post-293846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diaspora-en","category-international","tag-america-en","tag-archbishop-elpidophoros","tag-assembly-of-canonical-orthodox-bishops","tag-diaspora","tag-his-eminence-metropolitan-nicolae","tag-orthodox-diaspora","tag-orthodox-news","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}