LEWISTON — Archbishop Lazar Puhalo will attend a luncheon at Three One Cafe, 259 Lisbon St., from 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 8.

Puhalo, a hierarch of the Orthodox Church in America, is considered one of the world’s “foremost social philosophers,” according to a news release issued by the University of Maine at Augusta’s Holocaust and Human Rights Center.

There is limited seating, which is by RSVP only. Contact Angela Stump at [email protected] or Bridget Goyette at [email protected].

Puhalo has studied physics at the University of British Columbia, as well as neurobiology, Byzantine history and patristics at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and theology at Holy Trinity Seminary, Jordanville, N.Y.

He has lectured widely in North America and Europe on human rights, the ecological crisis, and religion and science.

Puhalo is an activist for women’s rights and has challenged men to be in the forefront of the struggle against such things as female circumcision in Africa.

He will also speak at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday evening at the Holocaust and Human Rights Center at the University of Maine at Augusta, 46 University Drive.

Puhalo’s visit is being sponsored by the HHRC, the Coastal Brunswick Rotary Club and the International Students Organization of Lewiston-Auburn.