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Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (HCHC) is a private Eastern Orthodox liberal arts college and seminary in Brookline and Boston in Massachusetts. The institution is composed of two schools. These are Hellenic College, an undergraduate liberal arts college, and Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, a graduate theological school and seminary. The institution is affiliated with the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.
In 1937, the institution was founded by Archbishop Athenagoras I of Constantinople and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America in Pomfret, Connecticut, as The Greek Archdiocese Institute. Its name was soon changed to Holy Cross Theological School, and was moved to Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1947. The institution reached its modern structure in 1968, when it established an undergraduate liberal arts college, Hellenic College, alongside the postgraduate theological school and seminary, now called the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. Both schools were first accredited in the 1970s.
Hellenic College Holy Cross is the only accredited Eastern Orthodox college, seminary, and graduate school of theology in both the United States, and the Western Hemisphere as a whole.