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On November 5, 2022, The Catholic University of America bestowed an honorary degree to His Eminence Metropolitan Serapion of the Coptic Church, and a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the University and the St. Athanasius & St Cyril Coptic Orthodox Theological School. For more information, see https://communications.catholic.edu/news/2022/11/university-bestows-honorary-degree,-formalizes-relationship-with-coptic-orthodox-seminary.html.

On October 28, 2022, we celebrated the Gift of the Robert W. Thomson Research Collection – the late Prof. Thomson was the Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies at Oxford University, and his family graciously donated his personal research library to the Semitics Department/ICOR Library of The Catholic University of America. For a video of … Celebrating the Gift of the Robert W. Thomson Research Collection

On September 28, 2022, the first chair and professorship within the Institute for the Study of Eastern Christianity was formally installed. The Ukrainian Catholic liturgical scholar Very Rev. Peter Galadza, Ph.D., was installed as the Bishop Basil H. Losten Endowed Professor and Chair in Ukrainian Church Studies in the School of Theology and Religious. Studies. … ISEC Installs First Endowed Chair with Prof. Peter Galadza in Ukrainian Church Studies

From February 3-4, 2020, ISEC and and the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America hosted the clergy retreat of the Archdiocesan District of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. See https://www.goarch.org/-/archbishop-elpidophoros-meets-catholic-university-of-america-officials for more information.