{"id":533380,"date":"2025-07-10T11:57:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=533380"},"modified":"2025-07-10T11:57:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:57:33","slug":"coptic-archbishop-london-iocs-cambridge-collaboration-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/coptic-archbishop-london-iocs-cambridge-collaboration-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Coptic Archbishop of London meets with Cambridge Orthodox Institute leaders to discuss future collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ai-optimize-6 ai-optimize-introduction\"><strong>The Coptic Archbishop of London held a meeting last week with two representatives of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.iocs.cam.ac.uk\/\">IOCS<\/a>) in Cambridge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-7\">Archbishop Angaelos welcomed Fr. Drago\u0219 Herescu, Director of IOCS, and Fr. John Jillions, the newly appointed Chair of the Institute\u2019s Board of Trustees, at the Coptic Orthodox Church Centre in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-8\">The discussions focused on the institute\u2019s current activities and future opportunities for collaboration, Archbishop Angaelos shared on the social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-9\">In turn, Fr. Drago\u0219 Herescu expressed his gratitude \u201cfor the warm hospitality and the very rich conversation, which promises an exciting and much-needed future collaboration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-10\">The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge was founded in 1999 and is a member of the Cambridge Theological Federation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Very pleased to receive my dear brothers, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IOCS_Cambridge?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IOCS_Cambridge<\/a> Principal Fr <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DragosHerescu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@DragosHerescu<\/a> and Board Chair Fr John Jillions, at our Bethel Centre today to discuss the work of the Institute, and look at opportunities for further collaboration. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yhyeXHquNd\">pic.twitter.com\/yhyeXHquNd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Archbishop Angaelos (@BishopAngaelos) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BishopAngaelos\/status\/1940176373257241012?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-15\"><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-15\">Photo: X \/ Archbishop Angaelos<\/p>\n<p class=\"ai-optimize-11\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BasilicaNews\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-495171\" src=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-889x148.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"889\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-889x148.gif 889w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-1024x171.gif 1024w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-1536x256.gif 1536w, https:\/\/basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/banner-x-en-2048x341.gif 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 440px, (max-width: 768px) 354px, 890px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coptic Archbishop of London held a meeting last week with two representatives of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies (IOCS) in Cambridge. Archbishop Angaelos welcomed Fr. Drago\u0219 Herescu, Director of IOCS, and Fr. John Jillions, the newly appointed Chair of the Institute\u2019s Board of Trustees, at the Coptic Orthodox Church Centre in the United&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":532712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35526,4597,35527,35528,35529,35530],"class_list":["post-533380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-archbishop-angaelos","tag-coptic-church","tag-iocs-cambridge","tag-orthodox-christian-education-uk","tag-orthodox-theology-collaboration","tag-orthodox-coptic-academic-dialogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533380","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=533380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}