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The '''[[Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America]]''', founded in 2010, consists of all the active Orthodox bishops of North and Central America, representing multiple jurisdictions. It is the successor to SCOBA, and it is not, properly speaking, a synod. The Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America is one of several such bodies around the world which operate in the so-called "diaspora."
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The '''[[Bede|Venerable Bede]]''' (c. 672 - [[May 25]], 735) was a [[monk]] at the Northumbrian [[monastery]] of St. Peter at Wearmouth (today part of Sunderland), and of its daughter monastery, St. Paul's, in modern Jarrow. He is well known as an author and scholar, whose best-known work is ''[[Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum]]'' (''The Ecclesiastical History of the English People''), which gained him the title ''The Father of English History''. [[Saint]] Bede wrote on many other topics, from music and musical metrics to [[scripture]] commentaries. His [[feast day]] is observed on May 25 or [[May 27]].
The Venerable Bede's commentaries on ''''Recently featured:''''' [[Holy ScripturesRaphael Morgan]] owed much to other patristic sources, as he often inserted long quotations from other Latin [[Church Fathers|FathersHoly Week]], especially [[Pope]] St. [[Gregory the Dialogist|Gregory the GreatGeorges Florovsky]], St. [[Augustine Theodoros II (Choreftakis) of HippoAlexandria]], and St. [[Jerome]]. In addition to two books of homilies on the [[Gospel]] [[pericope]]s of the [[Church calendar|liturgical yearPaschal Homily]], the great monk of Wearmouth's surviving works include verse-by-verse commentaries on the [[Acts of Pachomius the Apostles]], the Seven Catholic Epistles, and [http://www.apocalyptic-theories.com/theories/bede/bede.html The Explanation of the Apocalypse]. His commentaries on the Pauline Epistles are contained in ''The Biblical Miscellany''. He also compiled St. Augustine's commentary on the Pauline Epistles into a single volume that follows their order in our present canon. His allegorical interpretations of the [[Old TestamentGreat]] survive in two works: ''On the Temple'' and [http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/1995/95.02.14.html ''On the Tabernacle'']. :''"Better a stupid and unlettered brother who, working the good things he knows, merits life in Heaven than one who though being distinguished for his learning in the Scriptures, or even holding the place of a doctor, lacks the bread of love."'' :—St. Bede the Venerable '''''Recently featured:''' [[Gregory Palamas]], [[John Chrysostom]], [[Filioque]], [[Theotokos]]. View all Newly [[:Category:Featured Articles|featured articles]] are presented every '''Friday'''.''<noinclude>[[Category:Main page templates|Featured]]</noinclude>
