Join Christ Church as we commemorate the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. Bishop William Franklin, PhD, will deliver a public lecture on Saturday, September 27 at 4:00 p.m. in Historic Christ Episcopal Church exploring the Unity of Nicaea and its Significance in our World Today.
Following the lecture, you are invited to register for a Turkish dinner and panel discussion with Bishop Franklin and other local faith leaders. Menu includes Lamb Adana with Rice, Grilled Vegetables, Hummus and Tzatziki, and Baclava. Cost for dinner is $50.00 and tickets are limited.
Bishop Franklin will then be our guest preacher and celebrant Sunday morning at our 10:00 a.m. worship service.
Our Speaker: The Rt. Rev. William Franklin, PhD
Bishop Franklin is Assisting Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island. He was Bishop of the Diocese of Western New York from 2011 – April 2019; and previously served at St. Mark’s Church, Philadelphia; at St. Paul’s Within the Walls in Rome, for five years; as Associate Director of the American Academy in Rome; and Associate Priest of the Anglican Centre in Rome.
Earlier, he served as Dean of Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, as a professor at the General Theological Seminary in New York and at St. John’s University in Minnesota.
He holds a BA from Northwestern University and a PhD in Church History from Harvard.
Panelist: The Rev. Gary Hansen, PhD
The Rev. Gary Neal Hansen, Ph.D. is the award-winning author of Kneeling with Giants: Learning to Pray with History’s Best Teachers (InterVarsity, 2012). His doctoral work focused on Reformation theology and the history of biblical interpretation, particularly the New Testament hermeneutics of John Calvin. He was, for many years, a professor of Church History at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, and has done pastoral work in Presbyterian churches small and large.
Panelist: The Rev. Fr. Jim Dutko
Fr James S. Dutko, pastor of St. Michael’s Orthodox Church in Binghamton, NY, is a
protopresbyter of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of North America of the
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. He is a graduate of Bucknell University, the Maxwell School of Citizenship at Syracuse University and Christ the Saviour Orthodox Theological Seminary in Johnstown, PA. He served as Prefect and Academic Dean at Christ the Saviour Seminary from 1975-1986, and as a member of the faculty in Church History from 1972-1991. Fr. Dutko has been a member of the North American Orthodox-Roman Catholic Theological
Consultation since 1989, a member of the Orthodox Theological Society, and the Children of
Abraham and the First Ward Action Council here in the Southern Tier.