PATRIARCHATE OF MOSCOW: THE DOCUMENT “SINODALITY AND PRIMACY IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM” OF THE CATHOLIC-ORTHODOX COMMITTEE HAS BEEN APPROVED

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ΛΗΞΗ ΕΡΓΑΣΙΩΝ ΤΗΣ 14ΗΣ ΣΥΕΔΡΙΑΣΕΩΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΛΟΜΕΛΕΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΜΙΚΤΗΣ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗΣ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΚΟΥ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΥ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΩΝ ΚΑΙ ΡΩΜΑΙΟΚΑΘΟΛΙΚΩΝ

 The Russian Orthodox Church. Department for External Church Relations

 Clik Here: The 14th Plenary Session of the Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church completes its work

 Завершилась работа XIV пленарной сессии Смешанной комиссии по богословскому диалогу между Православной Церковью и Римско-Католической Церковью

ΣΤΙΓΜΙΟΤΥΠΑ ΑΠΟ ΤΙΣ ΕΡΓΑΣΙΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗΣ ΘΕΟΛΟΓΙΚΟΥ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΥ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΟΛΗ CHIETI (ΦΩΤΟ ΚΑΙ ΒΙΝΤΕΟ)

Φως Φαναρίου

Από 16 -22 Σεπτεμβρίου 2016 στην πόλη Chieti της Ιταλίας, πραγματοποιήθηκαν οι εργασίες της 14ης (XIV) Ολομέλειας της Διεθνούς Μικτής Επιτροπής Θεολογικού Διαλόγου μεταξύ της Ορθοδόξου και της Ρωμαιοκαθολικής Εκκλησίας. 

TOWARDS A COMMON UNDERSTANDING OF SYNODALITY AND PRIMACY

 Ecumenical Patriarchate Permanent Delegation to the World Council of Churches

14th plenary session of Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church

METROPOLITAN HILARION: UNIA REMAINS THE MAJOR STUMBLING BLOCK TO ORTHODOX-CATHOLIC DIALOGUE

On 16 September 2016, the 14^th plenary session of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church began its work in Chieti, Italy.

ENZO BIANCHI: LA VIA CONCILIARE, DOPO IL GRANDE SINODO ORTODOSSO

Enzo Bianchi, Avvenire

Un evento di importanza capitale, che negli anni e nei secoli che verranno prenderà il suo posto nella storia», così il patriarca ecumenico Bartolomeo ha definito il Santo e Grande Concilio della Chiesa Ortodossa, conclusosi domenica a Creta.

CHRISTOPHER STROOP COULD ORTHODOXY BE HAVING ITS VATICAN II MOMENT?

By Christopher Stroop June 20, 2016, Religion Dispatches

For the next week, hierarchs from most of the world’s individual Orthodox Christian Churches will convene for a Holy and Great Pan-Orthodox Council on the island of Crete, an event that many have been calling Orthodoxy’s Vatican II.

UNITA DALLA CONCILIARITA

Nella divina liturgia di Pentecoste il patriarca Bartolomeo ribadisce alcuni principi-chiave dell’ortodossia ·

20 giugno 2016, L'Osservatore Romano

Durante la concelebrazione della divina liturgia di Pentecoste che — domenica 19 giugno nella cattedrale di Heraklion — ha inaugurato il Santo e grande concilio della Chiesa ortodossa,

Η ΕΝ ΣΥΝΟΔΩ ΠΕΝΤΗΚΟΣΤΗ 2016

Φως Φαναρίου

Γράφει ο Θεολόγος-Εκκλησιαστικός Ιστορικός-Νομικός Ιωάννης Ελ. Σιδηράς 

ΕΛΘΕ ΚΑΙ ΣΚΗΝΩΣΟΝ ΕΝ ΗΜΙΝ 

PNEUMATOPHOBIA: THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN THE WAKE OF THE GREAT AND HOLY COUNCIL

 Sergei P. Brun, Wheel
Fire Extinguishers in the Cenacle
On June 13th 2016, it became clear that the celebration of Pentecost will be smeared with the unconcealed manifestation of disunity and rupture in the Orthodox Church, which is evidently unable to come together for the long-expected Holy and Great Council. Four local churches

THE PAN-ORTHODOX COUNCIL: WHERE THINGS STAND

Gabriel Sanchez, First Things
The Eastern Orthodox Church’s “Great and Holy Council,” which is set to begin in Crete on Sunday, June 19 (Eastern Pentecost), has been touted as Orthodoxy’s first “ecumenical council” in over a millennium.

HIS ALL-HOLINESS THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW CONVENES SMALL SYNAXIS OF THE PRIMATES OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCHES

Ecumenical Patriarchate Press Office

ελληνικά

Kolymvari, Crete, Greece
17 June 2016

Holy and Great Council Press Release

His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew convened a Small Synaxis this morning of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches, at the Orthodox Academy of Crete, to consider a “draft message” of the Holy and Great Council. 

THE PAN-ORTHODOX COUNCIL MUST AND WILL PROCEED

 

by Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis and Paul L. Gavrilyuk, First Things

The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, an event that has been in preparation for more than half a century, will take place at the Orthodox Academy of Crete on June 19-26, 2016.

ΤΟ ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑ ΤΩΝ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣΤΙΚΩΝ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΔΟΣΙΩΝ ΥΠΟ ΒΙΒΛΙΚΗ ΠΡΟΟΠΤΙΚΗ: ΜΕΡΙΚΕΣ ΕΠΙΣΗΜΑΝΣΕΙΣ

 Αθανάσιος Μουστάκης, amoustakis.wordpress.com

Τό παρακάτω κείμενο δημοσιεύθηκε στό περιοδικό Θεολογία (τόμος 87ος, τεῦχος 1ο, Ἰανουάριος – Μάρτιος 2016, σελίδες 369-376).

Α. Εἰσαγωγικὲς παρατηρήσεις

Βαδίζοντας πρὸς τὴ σύγκληση τῆς Ἁγίας καὶ Μεγάλης Συνόδου, ἡ ὁποία ἔχει προσδιοριστεῖ γιὰ τὸ ἔτος 2016 ὁ παρατηρητὴς ἐντυπωσιάζεται ἀπὸ τὰ θέματα ποὺ ἀναμένεται νὰ συζητηθοῦν σὲ αὐτή[1].

Η ΜΗΤΗΡ ΠΡΩΤΟΘΡΟΝΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΩΤΕΥΘΥΝΟΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥΠΟΛΕΩΣ «ΕΙΣ ΕΝΟΤΗΤΑ ΠΑΝΤΑΣ ΕΚΑΛΕΣΕ», «ΙΝΑ ΩΣΙΝ ΕΝ»

Γράφει ο Θεολόγος-Εκκλησιαστικός Ιστορικός-Νομικός κ. Ιωάννης Ελ. Σιδηράς, paratiritis

Ο Μητροπολίτης Γέρων Χαλκηδόνος Μελίτων στη Διακονία του Οράματος της Πανορθοδόξου Ενότητος και της Αγίας και Μεγάλης Συνόδου των Πανορθοδόξων

LEONID BERSHIDSKY, THE ORTHODOX CHURCH STAYS IN THE DARK AGES

Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg

Pope Francis' enormous popularity -- his Twitter accounts in different languages have a total of about 30 million followers, about as many as Bill Gates and more than Adele -- is a consequence of his openness to diversity and a softer approach to dogma

HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL WOES

 Fr. Ted Bobosh is a priest in the Orthodox Church in America, frted.wordpress.com

Various reports are indicating the that the Holy & Great Council of the heads of the various Orthodox Churches which is supposed to start its meeting this week, may be post-poned.  

Невыносимое унижение: почему Московский патриархат отказался от участия во Вселенском Соборе

Александр Куриленко, politeka

О  том, какое значение для создания Украинской национальной церкви будет иметь Всеправославный Собор на Крите и почему его проведению активно противодействует РПЦ, в интервью Politeka рассказывает епископ Российской православной автономной церкви Григорий (Вадим Лурье)

ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS' GLOBAL GATHERING UNRAVELS AS FIVE CHURCHES PULL OUT

 

Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian

After 55 years of planning, the historic holy and great council of 14 Orthodox churches in Crete may collapse over power struggle

After an interlude of more than a millennium, 55 years of careful planning, and within days of its opening, the first global gathering of Orthodox churches since the year 787 is teetering on the brink of collapse amid dissent and power struggles.

THE HOLY AND GREAT COLLAPSING COUNCIL: WHY EASTERN ORTHODOXY IS IN TROUBLE

 Mark Woods, Christian Today

Eastern Orthodox Churches are gathering shortly in Crete for a highly significant 'Holy and Great Council' aimed at ironing out knotty problems that have accumulated over the last few centuries.