CONCILIARITY AND PRIMACY – Echoes from the Holy and Great Council [8 October 2026 Chantilly, France]

 

CONCILIARITY AND PRIMACY

Echoes from the Holy and Great Council

Fr. John Chryssavgis

Η ΕΙΣΗΓΗΣΗ ΤΟΥ Π. ΙΩΑΝΝΗ ΧΡΥΣΑΥΓΗ ΣΤΟ ΔΙΕΘΝΕΣ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΚΟ ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΟ ΤΟΥ ΕΚΠΑ

HAVE WE HIT ROCK BOTTOM? REFLECTIONS OF A NOT-SO-INNOCENT BYSTANDER

                    

by Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis

^{Image: Orthodox World Council of Churches pre-assembly meeting (Russian Orthodox Church Department for External Church Relations)}

ΕΝΑΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΟΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΙΑΝΟΣ ΜΕ ΤΟ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑΣ Προσωπικές σκέψεις για την επίθεση της Ρωσίας κατά της Ουκρανίας

                   

Ιωάννης Χρυσαυγής

Λίγοι, ή ίσως και κανένας, θα έφταναν στο σημείο να ισχυριστούν ότι ο Πατριάρχης Κύριλλος, ως επικεφαλής της Ορθόδοξης Εκκλησίας της Ρωσίας (ή «πασών των Ρωσιών», όπως θέλει να λέει), θα μπορούσε να κατηγορηθεί για εγκλήματα κατά της ανθρωπότητας ή για εγκλήματα πολέμου, επειδή δεν απέτρεψε την απροειδοποίητη και αδικαιολόγητη στρατιωτική επίθεση που έχει κοστίσει αρκετές αθώες ζωές τις τελευταίες μόλις ημέρες. Την ίδια στιγμή, πολλοί, αν όχι οι περισσότεροι, θα συμφωνούσαν ότι ο Πρόεδρος Πούτιν πρέπει να λογοδοτήσει για τέτοιες φρικαλεότητες.

AN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN STANDING WITH UKRAINE PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON RUSSIA'S WAR ON UKRAINE

              

by Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, is a deacon of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America., public orthodoxy

«ΥΠΕΡ ΤΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΚΟΣΜΟΥ ΖΩΗΣ»: Η ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΗ ΔΙΔΑΣΚΑΛΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ – ΔΙΑΔΙΚΤΥΑΚΗ ΣΤΡΟΓΓΥΛΗ ΤΡΑΠΕΖΑ

                        

Διαδικτυακή στρογγυλή τράπεζα: Ο π. Ιωάννης Χρυσαυγής συνομιλεί με τον Βασίλειο Μακρίδη, τον Θανάση Ν. Παπαθανασίου και τη Θεοδότα Νάντσου.

ECUMENICAL DIALOGUE: ASCETICISM, ETHICS, AND THE RENEWAL OF THE EARTH

                               

By John Chryssavgis and Aaron Hollander,  49 (2020), Ecumenical Trends

The Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, Archdeacon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, was born in Australia, studied theology in Athens, completed his doctorate in Oxford, and lived for a time on Mt. Athos. He has taught theology in Sydney and in Boston, and he currently serves as theological advisor to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, known worldwide as “the green patriarch.” His latest book is Creation as Sacrament: Reflections on Ecology and Spirituality (Bloomsbury, 2019). He lives in Maine.

CLIMATE CHANGE AS MORAL PRIORITY: THE GREEN PATRIARCH

 

Climate Change as Moral Priority: The Green Patriarch

The University of Massachusetts, Lowell, is offering a webinar titled, “Climate Change as Moral Priority: The Greek Patriarch” featuring Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, Theological Advisor to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. 

COVID-19 AND CLIMATE CHANGE: LIVING WITH AND LEARNING FROM A PANDEMIC

 

By Fr. John Chryssavgis, blogs.goarch.org

That is the title of a new program organized by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in its long and varied sequence of ecological conferences since the early 1990s. 

TOWARD A SOCIAL ETHOS OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH A NEW DOCUMENT OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America  

TOWARD A SOCIAL ETHOS OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH
A New Document of the Ecumenical Patriarchate

Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis

Archdeacon of the Ecumenical Throne

THE VALUE OF NOTHING: LESSONS FROM COVID-19 ON SILENCE AND STILLNESS

by Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, Public Orthodoxy

I’ve always admired the early monks and nuns of the desert literature. Not because they discovered ways of escaping the reality of paying taxes. Not only because their words were inspirational and their prayer transformative. And not primarily because they withstood the power of the empire and the test of time. But because they prevail as symbols of an alternative course of action. While their ideal is often mythologized or romanticized, even manipulated and exploited in many church circles, it nevertheless remains an image of the value of silence. Of doing less or doing nothing. Of wordlessness and inconspicuousness. Of praying instead of producing. Quite simply: of being.

COMMUNITY THROUGH CO-ORDINATION: THE WORLDS OF DIVINE GRACE AND HIERARCHAL AUTHORITY

 The Wheel 20 (spring 2020): The house in crisis

John Chryssavgis, Archdeacon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate

 

 The sacrament of ordination, and its control of and impact on clergy and laity, have been on the radar of the Church and on my mind of late, especially with the elections of a number of bishops worldwide and the surrounding debates about hierarchy, jurisdiction, and authority. However, the theology of ordination has frequently become so convoluted and clouded— by mysticism, misinterpretation, and even sometimes malevolence—that it invariably distorts any meaningful conversation about priesthood, power, and primacy in the Church.

ARCHDEACON OF THE ECUMENICAL THRONE DELIVERS HOMILY: A PATRIARCH OF SAINTS

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada

Greek-English

Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, Archdeacon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and noted theologian and author, visited the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada between November 22 and 24, 2019.

MEN, MONKS, AND MAKING SAINTS

by Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis,
Public Orthodoxy

On his recent visit to Mt. Athos in October, 2019, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew announced the imminent inclusion of five Athonite elders among the saints: Ieronymos of Simonopetra, Daniel of Katounakia, Joseph the Hesychast, Ephraim of Katounakia, and Sophrony of Essex.

Hold the Date – November 23rd: A PATRIARCH OF SAINTS

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios, who is currently a member of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada and the Ecumenical Patriarchate Archons in Canada are pleased to present a special spiritual homily by a world-renowned theologian and Orthodox clergyman.

PROSPERITY & PHILANTHROPY PASSING THROUGH THE EYE OF A NEEDLE

 

John Chryssavgis is a clergyman of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. He has taught theology in Sydney and Boston, and lives in Maine.

Jacopo Bassano, Lazarus and the Rich Man, c. 1550 (The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds)

PASTORAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE UKRAINIAN AUTOCEPHALY: A PERSONAL FACE TO A POLITICAL ISSUE

FR. JOHN CHRYSSAVGIS, ''Pastoral Perspectives of the Ukrainian Autocephaly: A Personal Face to a Political Issue'',  in  The Ecumenical Patriarchate and Ukraine Autocephaly, Evagelos Sotiropoulos, Editor, May 2019, ORDER OF SAINT ANDREW THE APOSTLE, ARCHONS OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE, pp. 11-16.

FR. JOHN CHRYSSAVGIS: THEOLOGICAL FORMATION AND ECOLOGICAL AWARENESS”

HALKI SUMMIT III
(Istanbul, June 1-3, 2019)
“Theological Formation and Ecological Awareness”
Fr. John Chryssavgis

CONSTANTINOPLE, MOSCOW AND UKRAINE. WHO IS VIOLATING ORTHODOX UNITY?

A collaborator of Patriarch Bartholomew speaks on the clash with the Partriarchate of Russia for the concession of autocephaly to the Church of Kiev

Fr. John Chryssavgis *

THE CASE FOR CONSTANTINOPLE

Patriarch Bartholomew I (right) and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill in Istanbul in 2009

by John Chryssavgis, 24 October 2018 | The Tablet