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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."
'''''[[Filioque]]''''' is a Latin word meaning "and the Son" which was added to the [[Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed]] by the [[Church of Rome]] in the 11th century, one of the major factors leading to the [[Great Schism]] between East and West. This inclusion in the Creedal article regarding the [[Holy Spirit]] thus states that the Spirit "proceeds from the Father '''''and the Son'''''."
Its inclusion in the Creed is a violation of the '''''Recently featured:''''' [[canonsRaphael Morgan]] of the , [[Third Ecumenical CouncilHoly Week]] in 431, which forbade and [[anathemaGeorges Florovsky]]tized any additions to the Creed, a prohibition which was reiterated at the [[Eighth Ecumenical Council]] in 879-880. This word was not included by the [[First Ecumenical Council|Council of Nicea]] nor Theodoros II (Choreftakis) of [[Second Ecumenical Council|ConstantinopleAlexandria]], and most in the [[Orthodox ChurchPaschal Homily]] consider this inclusion to be a [[heresy]]. The description of the ''filioque'' as a heresy was iterated most clearly and definitively by the great [[Church Fathers|Father]] and [[Pillars of Orthodoxy|Pillar]] of the Church, St. [[Photius Pachomius the Great]], in his ''On the Mystagogy of the Holy Spirit''. He describes it as a heresy of [[Triadology]], striking at the very heart of what the Church believes about God. '''''Recently featured:''' [[Theotokos]], [[Basil the Great]], [[Autocephaly]], [[Afterfeast]]. View all Newly [[:Category:Featured Articles|featured articles]] are presented every '''Friday'''.''<noinclude>[[Category:Main page templates|Featured]]</noinclude>
