Florence, Arizona, October 10, 2024
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Uncut Mountain Press has announced a conference to be held in Florence, Arizona, in early December, dedicated to “Torches of Truth: The Kollyvades Fathers and Their Successors.”
This is the follow-up to the Press’ 
Conference on 8th Ecumenical Council announced (St. Michael Serbian Orthodox Church-Uncut Mountain Press)A new conference dedicated to the 8th Ecumenical Council: The Catholic Condemnation of the Filioque has been announced for next March.
“>conference on the 8th Ecumenical Council and the Condemnation of the Filioque held in Alabama last fall.
On St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite and the Kollyvades FathersAgainst the supposedly very knowledgeable western man who lives intensely in his “enlightenment,” his vast storage of knowledge, the Kollyvades came and placed the struggling ascetic man seeking for holiness, and the new martyrs. In this context of sanctification and holiness the Kollyvades Fathers of the Philokalia stood and lived.
“>The Kollyvades Fathers, most notably including Sts. Makarios of Corinth, Nikodemos the Hagiorite, and Athanasios of Paros were a group of Orthodox monks and theologians who emerged in the late 18th century on Mt. Athos. They were part of a spiritual and intellectual movement aimed at revitalizing Orthodox spirituality and practice. They were responsible for the compilation of the Orthodox classic The Philokalia.
The conference speakers will explore the lives, teachings, and times of the Kollyvades Fathers and also look at those who are “followers of the Holy Fathers” today, including the holy Athonite Elder Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona. The conference, to be held December 5–6, is timed to conclude on the eve of the anniversary of 
Elder Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona reposes in the LordThe Athonite elder, loved throughout the entire Orthodox world, reposed at about 10:00 PM at St. Anthony’s Arizona in Florence, Arizona, which he founded in 1995.
“>Elder Ephraim’s repose, which will be prayerfully commemorated at St. Anthony’s Monastery in Florence on December 7.
Speakers include:
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Archimandrite Nikodemos (Barousis), Abbot of the Holy Monastery of the Panagia Chrysopodoritissa, Chrysopigi (Achaia), Greece: Western Baptism: The “Study” of Dorotheos Voulismas, St. Paisius Velichkovsky, and the Kollyvades Fathers
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Archimandrite Gregorios (Estephan)Gregorios (Estephan), Archimandrite
“>Archimandrite Gregorios Estephan, Abbot of Holy Dormition Orthodox Monastery in Bkeftine, Lebanon: “Following the Holy Fathers”: The Chief Characteristic of an Orthodox Christian Then and Now
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Archpriest Peter Heers, founder and head of Uncut Mountain Press and Orthodox Ethos: Successors of the Kollyvades: St. Joseph the Hesychast and Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona
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Constantine Zalalas, founder of St. Nikodemos Publications and international speaker: The Essence of the Kollyvadic Spirit and Its Significance Today
In addition to individual presentations, the conference will also feature Q&A sessions and a roundtable discussion with the speakers.
For more information and registration for the conference, visit the site of Uncut Mountain Press.
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