Fr. Trevino Leads Media Team to Constantinople
November 20, 2006
JOHNSTOWN, PA - Fr. Nectarios Trevino, the
pastor of our diocesan Nativity of Our Lord Parish in Manassas, Virgina, will
represent His Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas in Constantinople next week when
Pope Benedict XVI meets with the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I. While in
Constantinople Fr. Nectarios will lead a team of media writers who will report
on this historic meeting. He will be accompanied by Pani Diane Trevino.
Joshua Trevino, Father Nectarios' eldest son, assembled the joint
Orthodox-Catholic team to travel to Constantinople with the blessing of His
Eminence, Metropolitan Nicholas and at the invitation of the Archons of the
Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Participants will further seek opportunities to publicize the Patriarchate,
Orthodoxy in America in general, and in other media outlets. Secured media
outlets include Touchstone magazine, Inside the Vatican magazine,
and Human Events magazine; possible media outlets include
BeliefNet, the Dallas Morning News, and First
Things.
The participants are also developing a follow-up Orthodox-Catholic conference
to be held in the United States, which will result in further positive media
exposure.
The media team will include: Dr. John W. Birkenmeier (Ph.D., The Catholic
University of America) a Byzantine historian; Rowena M. Itchon is Vice President
for Marketing at the Pacific Research Institute and a former senior editor at
Regnery where she edited five New York Times bestselling books; Dr. Robert
Moynihan (Ph.D., 1988, Medieval Studies, Yale University) is the founder and
editor of Inside the Vatican, a monthly magazine on Vatican affairs with a
worldwide circulation; Daniel P. Schmidt, Ph.D., is Vice President for Program
at The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Subdeacon
Maximus Tatum, a doctoral student at William & Mary College.
The delegation will be traveling from November 25 - December 6. His Eminence,
Metropolitan Nicholas requests that all diocesan faithful pray for the success
of the deliberations during the historic meeting of Pope Benedict and Ecumenical
Patriarch Bartholomew, and for the safe travel of Fr. Nectarios and his media
team.
Please consult our diocesan website for daily updates, beginning on
November 26 regarding this important event, which will include photographs and
commentary detailing our delegation's activities and that of His All-Holiness
Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Benedict XVI .
