THE DIFFERENT CANONICAL PROPERTIES OF EXERCISE OF THE JURISDICTION OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE OF CONSTANTINOPLE

Archim. Grigorios D. PAPATHOMAS,

The various different ways in which the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople is exercised in the Orthodox Church

ΣΥΝΟΔΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ ΚΑΙ ΙΕΡΟΙ ΚΑΝΟΝΕΣ ΣΤΗΝ "ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ''-SYNODALIT E ET SAINTS CANONS AU SEIN DE L' E GLISE

 

Archim. Grigorios D. PAPATHOMAS

Professeur à la Facult é de Th é ologie de l’Universit é d’Ath è neset à l’Institut de Th é ologie orthodoxe “Saint Serge” de Paris

  21.5.2013

Text in Greek:

ΣΥΝΟΔΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ ΚΑΙ ΙΕΡΟΙ ΚΑΝΟΝΕΣ ΣΤΗΝ "ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ

Text in French:

Synodalit é et Saints Canons au sein de l’ É glise 

The Canonical Orthodox Anti-proposal to the concept of the “National Church”: the Autocephalous Church

 Archim. Grigorios D. Papathomas

Ecclesiological inadequacies within the bosom of the National Church and the “weaknesses” in the reception of the Autocephalous Church)[1]

— Introduction

A. “Church at a Location” and “Epithetical Church”: How far can this Difference be taken?

• “Location” (locus) and “Epithet” in the Church designation

B. The Autocephalous Church in the bosom of the Conciliar Communion of the Locally Established Churches

I. The Constituent Elements of the “National Church”

• Theology of National Missionism

• National Ecclesiology: the founding Myth of the Diaspora

II. The Constituent Elements of the “Autocephalous Church”

• Autocephaly as Otherness and as Unity simultaneously

— Conclusion

— Bibliography