About Us

Mission The mission of OLTV is to provide a new technological method so that ... Eastern Christians in America can reinforce their religious traditions, and educate themselves and their families. Newly arrived Eastern Christian immigrants can maintain contact with their homeland. Western Christians (Roman Catholics and Protestants) will become more aware of the Eastern Churches.

Gregorios III, Melkite Greek-Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Alexandria, Jerusalem, and all the East

Goals

• OLTV will mostly serve the Byzantine Tradition (Melkite, Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Romanian, Italo-Greek, etc.), but also be open to other rites and traditions of the Oriental and/or Latin Church.
• OLTV will help Christians who have emigrated to remain in contact with their home traditions, liturgies, prayers, folklores, family and social environment.
• OLTV will bring all emigrated faithful together in a brotherly, deep open link, worldwide, with their mother Church and with each other.
• OLTV will be a continuation of the pan-Byzantine and ecumenical initiatives of the Orientale Lumen conferences and Eastern Churches Journal.
• OLTV will be a privately sponsored initiative, under the direct patronage of His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III with an American Episcopal advisory board.
• OLTV will be open and available to all who support its goals and objectives.
• OLTV will be a service for the entire Christian Church, and especially the traditions of the Eastern Churches.
• OLTV will be a memorial of love and deep recognition of the late Pope John Paul II who wrote the 1995 Apostolic Letter Orientale Lumen, revealing the contents of this letter in a modern context.