Welcome to the OCAMPR website

The 2010 OCAMPR Annual Conference:
Orthodox Praxis & Clinical Practice: How Our Faith Informs Our Work

Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, New York, NY
November 5-6, 2010

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OCAMPR exists to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and promote Christian fellowship among helping professionals in medicine, psychology and religion. Members pursue an understanding of the whole person which integrates the basic assumptions of medicine, psychology and religion within the Orthodox Christian faith in educating and serving Church and community.

OCAMPR contributes to the spiritual sustenance and growth of helping and healing professionals who experience their Orthodox Christian faith as the center of their professional life and ministry.  Inter-jurisdictional and SCOBA-endorsed,  OCAMPR is for those who seek to better understand and experience the best relationship between theology and the healing arts and sciences, to better offer their services in the light of Christ’s truth and the Church’s healing wisdom.

Members share a love for Christ and the holistic view of personhood and sacredness inherent in Eastern Orthodoxy as it informs their professional lives and practices in medicine, nursing, mental health, psychology, ethics, theology, parish ministry, parish nursing, prison and community ministry, social services, and military, institutional and community chaplaincy.

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The Holy Martyrs Cosmas and Damian are known as the “unmercenary physicians” and wonderworkers who took no money for their labors. They were born in Rome and grew up Christian, both showing gifts of healing and the ability to encourage others in their Christian journey. Persecuted for their faith, they were eventually brought before the Emperor Galerius,who asked them to deny Christ to save their lives. Instead, they preached to the Emperor urging him to turn to the Living God and the true Faith. After healing the Emperor of a serious illness, Emperor Galerius declared himself a Christian and released the two brothers. They lived to continue working until their fame elicited envy in a physician who had been their former teacher. On the pretext of collecting medicinal herbs together, he stoned them to death in 284 A.D. OCAMPR adopted Sts. Cosmas and Damian as its patron saints, in honor of their witness to the Orthodox Christian faith, gifts in the healing arts and rendering a life of service to all people without exacting a fee.