THE LONG ROAD FROM THE EXCOMMUNICATION TO THE RESTORATION OF COMMUNION

Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity

On the ecclesiological significance of removing the excommunications issued in 1054 from the memory and midst of the Church

Kurt Cardinal Koch

TRIUNE GOD AND THE IDENTITY OF THE CHURCH

 

 

Cardinal Kurt Koch, Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity

Keynote presentation at the VI World Conference on Faith and Church Order at the Logos Papal Centre of the Coptic Orthodox Church

Wadi Natrun, Egypt, 25 October 2025

SINODALITA ED ECUMENISMO: UN LEGAME NECESSARIO

 di Kurt Koch Cardinale prefetto del Dicastero per la promozione dell’unità dei cristiani

18 gennaio 2023 L'Osservatore Romano

Cardinal Kurt Koch, head of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Promotion of Christian Unity: Synodality and Ecumenism: a Necessary Bond.

BRIEF ADDRESS OF CARDINAL KOCH

Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity 

BRIEF ADDRESS OF CARDINAL KOCH

Feast of Saint Andrew
Istanbul, 30 November 2021

CARDINAL KOCH REFLECTS ON THE POSSIBILITY OF A COMMON DATE FOR EASTER

 

Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

In an interview on 11 May with EWTN News Nightly, Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, reflects on the question of the diversity in the date for the celebration of Easter, explaining the historical reasons underlying the disparity between Eastern and Western Christianity. Cardinal Koch also reflects on the possibility of all Christians to celebrate Easter on the same day, discussing the prospects for dialogue on this question.

LETTER ADDRESSED TO THE NEW PATRIARCH OF SERBIA, CARDINAL KURT KOCH, PRESIDENT OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN UNITY,

 

Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

On 18 February 2021 the Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, gathered in assembly in the Cathedral of Saint Sava in Belgrade, elected the new Patriarch of the Serbian Church, the Metropolitan of Zagabria and Ljubljana, Porfirije (Perić).

CAMMINARE INSIEME SULLA STESSA VIA, LA SINODALITA DA UN PUNTO DI VISTA ECUMENICO

 

vatican news

L'articolo del cardinale Kurt Koch Presidente del Pontificio Consiglio per la Promozione dell'Unità dei Cristiani pubblicato oggi su L'Osservatore Romano in occasione dei 1700 anni dal concilio ecumenico di Nicea: il primo nella storia della Chiesa

di Kurt Koch*

In cammino verso un grande anniversario

MESSAGE OF CARDINAL KOCH FOR 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF PROCLAMATION OF SAINTS CYRIL AND METHODIUS AS CO–PATRONS OF EUROPE

Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

GREETING CARDINAL KURT KOCH, PRESIDENT OF THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN UNITY

 Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

A DELEGATION OF THE HOLY SEE TAKES PART IN THE PATRONAL FEAST OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE

 

Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Within the framework of the traditional exchange of delegations for the respective feasts of their patron saints, on 29 June in Rome for the celebration of Saints Peter and Paul and on 30 November in Istanbul for the celebration of Saint Andrew, Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, led the Holy See's delegation for the feast of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The Cardinal was accompanied by Bishop Brian Farrell, Secretary, and Monsignor Andrea Palmieri, Under-Secretary.

IN MEMORIAM HIS HOLINESS PATRIARCH IRINEJ

Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity 

The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity has learned with great sadness of the death of His Holiness Irinej, Patriarch of the Serbian Church, who passed away on 20 November 2020.

CARDINAL KOCH : “THE ECUMENICAL EXCHANGE OF GIFTS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST. CHALLENGES–DIFFICULTIES–PROSPECTS” (ACADEMIC LECTURE)

 Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

From 6–9 October Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, visited Austria at the invitation of the Pro Oriente Foundation for the celebration of the 35th anniversary of its Salzburg section.

ΣΥΝΑΝΤΗΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΗ ΒΟΛΟΚΟΛΑΜΣΚ ΙΛΑΡΙΩΝΑ ΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΠΡΟΕΔΡΟ ΤΟΥ ΠΟΝΤΙΦΙΚΟΥ ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΙΟΥ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΠΡΟΩΘΗΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΝΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΤΩΝ ΧΡΙΣΤΙΑΝΩΝ ΚΑΡΔΙΝΑΛΙΟ ΚΟΥΡΤ ΚΟΧ

Koch: l'ecumenismo dei Santi avvicina cattolici e ortodossi

A quattro anni dalla Dichiarazione de L'Avana tra Papa Francesco e il Patriarca di Mosca e di tutta la Russia Kirill in programma il 12 febbraio a Roma il Convegno organizzato sul tema "I Santi - segni e semi dell'unità". Presenti il cardinale Kurt Koch, presidente del Pontificio Consiglio per la Promozione dell’Unità dei Cristiani, e il Metropolita Hilarion, a capo del Dipartimento Relazioni Estere del Patriarcato di Mosca

VERS L´UNITÉ DE L´ÉGLISE EN ORIENT ET EN OCCIDENT

Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

VERS L´UNITÉ DE L´ÉGLISE EN ORIENT ET EN OCCIDENT

Les chemins pour surmonter les divisions entre l´Église catholique,
les Églises orthodoxes orientales et les Églises orthodoxes

Chambésy (Suisse), 16 décembre 2019 

Cardinal Kurt Koch

CARDINALE KOCH: PER L'ECUMENISMO SERVE OBIETTIVO COMUNE

 

Cardinale Koch: per l'ecumenismo serve obiettivo comune

Il presidente del Pontificio Consiglio per l’unità dei cristiani interviene all’incontro Ccee dei vescovi orientali cattolici d’Europa in corso a Roma. La "piena comunione ecclesiale", afferma, "non è stata ancora raggiunta e occorrerà probabilmente molto più tempo di quanto immaginato"

KOCH: IL PUNTO SULL: ECUMENISMO

Che cosa significano per l’ecumenismo le recenti tensioni in seno all’ortodossia? Il dialogo tra il Vaticano e Mosca si è di nuovo raffreddato? Che influsso hanno lasciato la celebrazione dell’anniversario della Riforma nel 2017 e l’“evento-Lund”? E quali nuovi progetti sono in vista? Sono domande a cui il Presidente del Pontificio Consiglio per la promozione dell’unità, card. Kurt Koch, ha risposto in un’intervista a katholisch.de, pubblicata il 12 dicembre.

CARDINAL KOCH SAYS DIALOGUE CONTINUES DESPITE DIVISIONS

by Christa Pongratz-Lippitt

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and Pope Francis meet in 2016 in Havana. Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch (right) is greeting Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of external relations for the Russian Orthodox Church.

ΕΠΙΣΚΕΨΗ ΚΑΡΔΙΝΑΛΙΟΥ ΕΙΣ ΤΟΝ ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟ ΜΑΣ

Ιερά Μητρόπολη Κισσάμου και Σελίνου

ΣΥΝΑΝΤΗΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΤΕΕΣ ΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΠΡΟΕΔΡΟ ΤΟΥ ΠΟΝΤΙΦΙΚΟΥ ΣΥΜΒΟΥΛΙΟΥ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΠΡΟΩΘΗΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΕΝΟΤΗΤΑΣ ΤΩΝ ΧΡΙΣΤΙΑΝΩΝ

                   ΡΩΣΙΚΗ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ. Τμήμα Εξωτερικών Εκκλησιαστικών Σχέσεων

Με τον Καρδινάλιο Κουρτ Κοχ, Πρόεδρο του Ποντιφικού Συμβουλίου για την Προώθηση της Ενότητας των Χριστιανών, είχε συνάντηση στις 26 Σεπτεμβρίου 2017 στο Βατικανό ο Μητροπολίτης Βολοκολάμσκ Ιλαρίωνας, Πρόεδρος του Τμήματος Εξωτερικών Εκκλησιαστικών Σχέσεων του Πατριαρχείου Μόσχας.