{"id":483549,"date":"2024-06-11T13:01:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T10:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=483549"},"modified":"2024-06-11T13:01:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T10:01:46","slug":"cambridge-institute-for-orthodox-christian-studies-marks-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/cambridge-institute-for-orthodox-christian-studies-marks-25th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies marks 25th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Sunday, June 9, the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iocs.cam.ac.uk\/about\/history\/\">IOCS<\/a>) in Cambridge celebrated its 25th anniversary since it officially registered as a company in the UK. Fr. Drago\u0219 Herescu, a Romanian, currently serves as the educational institution&#8217;s director.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On this occasion, the Institute commissioned an anniversary icon of the Saviour Jesus Christ, which includes certain elements representative of the educational institution.<\/p>\n<p>The anniversary events, planned since the beginning of the year, will commence on June 26 with a reception for IOCS donors at Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n<p>The next anniversary event, titled &#8220;Orthodox Day,&#8221; will take place on August 3 at the Southpark Cathedral in London and will be dedicated to promoting the Institute.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half of the year, the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge will organize a day dedicated to alumni and a fundraising concert.<\/p>\n<p>The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge was founded in 1999 and is a member of the Cambridge Theological Federation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Forthodoxcambridge%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02AaV9RhWtWPCTzuNJKkyjcNoiZrbw31qviCGDXi4FtZ9ZmpP2JasJMDf5DcTsZ5gUl&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"684\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Photography courtesy of The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies \u2013 Cambridge \/ Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on X.com: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/basilicanews\">@BasilicaNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, June 9, the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies (IOCS) in Cambridge celebrated its 25th anniversary since it officially registered as a company in the UK. Fr. Drago\u0219 Herescu, a Romanian, currently serves as the educational institution&#8217;s director. On this occasion, the Institute commissioned an anniversary icon of the Saviour Jesus Christ, which includes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":466213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22922],"tags":[32729,32730],"class_list":["post-483549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-institute-for-orthodox-christian-studies","tag-university-of-cambridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483549","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}