AUTOCEPHALY: A CHALLENGE FOR BOTH ORTHODOX AND CATHOLICS

AUTOCEPHALY:

A CHALLENGE FOR BOTH ORTHODOX AND CATHOLICS

PONTIFICIO ISTITOUTO ORIENTALE

AULA MAGNA

ROME, 2-3 May 2019

2 May 2019  I 16:00-17:00

OPENING & WELCOME

David E. NAZAR, SI

Rettore del Pontificio Istitouto Orientale

Presentation of Speaker and Program

Edward FARRUGIA, SI

SESSION I: DONOHE LECTURE

Thomas BREMER

University of Munster

Autocephaly: Α Challenge for both Orthodox and Catholics

17:30 Coffe Break

SESSION II

Andrew LOUTH

University Durham

From Autocephaly in the Patristic Period to Autocephaly in Today's Orthodox Chruches: Some Criticla Reflections

Grigorios PAPATHOMAS

University of Athens

La formation de l'Autocephalie a ;' epoque de la Moderite (16e-20es)

Peter SZABO

Pontificio Institouto Orientale

Il Fenomeno dell' autocefalia in ottica cattolica

3 May   9:00-12:30

Eygeny PILIPENKO

Ss Cyril and Methodius Insitute Moscow

The Autocephaly Principle in Praxis and Thought of Russian Orthodoxy

Ines ANGELI MURZAKU

Seton Hall University, USA

From Schism to the Holy Chrism: The Arduous Path of the Orthodox Church of Albania to Autocefaly

10:30 Coffe Break

SESSION IV

Tamara GRDZELIDZE

University of St. Michael' s College- University of Toronto

Autocephaly: Beyind Ecclesial Structures

Hyacinthe DESTIVELLE OP

The Pontificial Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Degrees of Communion and Schism

Assad Elias KATTAN

University of Munster

Synodality in the Orthodox Church: Α Solution or a Disfuncional System?

12:30 Lunch 

3 May 14:30-17:30

SESSION V

John H. ERICKSON

St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theologigal Seminary, USA

How the Debate on Autocephaly is Changing Ecclesiology

Zoja Mixailivla DASHEVKAJA

Theology Faculty, St. Filaret Institute, Moscow

Ecclesiological Searchings and Discoveries Division in post- Constantinian Era

Cyril HOVORUN

Loyola Marymount University USA

The Evolutionary Tree of Autocephaly

16:00 Coffe Break

PLENARY SESSION

H.E. Job GETCHA

pATRIARCHAL eXARCHATE FOR oRTOHDOX pARISHES OF rUSSIAN tRADITIONAL IN wESTERN Europe

H. E. Irinej BULOVIC

BISHOP OF bACKA

sPOKESMAN OF THE sERBIAN oRTHODOX cHURCH