SPIRIT OF UNITY PREVAILS AT HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL DESPITE ABSENCES

  Stavros H. Papagermanos, full journal see Orthodox Observer Archives
Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church convened June 20, at the Orthodox Academy of Crete after almost 1,000 years since the last such gathering and despite the decision of four Churches not to participate. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided with 10 Autocephalous Churches present.

METROPOLITAN KALLISTOS REFLECTS ON ORTHODOX COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE DELEGATION OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE HOPES JUNE’S MEETING IS THE FIRST IN A SERIES MICHAEL HEINLEIN OSV NEWSWEEKLY

7/5/2016

Metropolitan Kallistos is the author of “The Orthodox Church,” widely considered a leading introductory work to Orthodoxy. CNS

RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH CALLS BOYCOTTED CRETE COUNCIL ‘AN IMPORTANT EVENT’

By Tom Heneghan, Religion News Service

The Russian Orthodox Church, whose boycott of a major summit of Orthodox Christian leaders in Crete last month threatened to slow down efforts to promote greater unity, has declared the meeting “an important event in the history of the conciliar process.”

"THE PAN-ORTHODOX COUNCIL: WHY IT MATTERS FOR RELIGION AND GLOBAL CHANGE"

July 2016 Faith & International Affairs Conference Call

ΘΕΤΙΚΑ ΑΠΟΤΙΜΑ Ο ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΣ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΝΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗ ΣΥΝΟΔΟ

Συνέντευξη του Οικουμενικού Πατριάρχη Βαρθολομαίου δημοσιεύει την Τρίτη η ιταλική εφημερίδα La Repubblica με ιδιαίτερη αναφορά στην σημασία της Πανορθόδοξης Συνόδου που έλαβε πρόσφατα χώρα στην Κρήτη.

CAROL SABA: DECIPHERING ORTHODOXY'S CURRENT CONCILIAR CRISIS

This is a slightly expanded version (provided by the author) of an article that will appear in this Thursday's issue in the leading French Protestant magazine, Réforme.

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SHOULD HEED THE WARNING PROFFERED BY ORTHODOX INFIGHTING

  Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith,

During a recent trip to Bulgaria, I discovered a people in need of pastoral care, not theological squabbling

EΚΤΑΚΤΗ ΣΥΝΕΔΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΣΥΝΟΔΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ (ΔΕΥΤΕΡΑ, 18 ΙΟΥΛΙΟΥ 2016)

Εκκλησία Κύπρου 

ΑΝΑΚΟΙΝΩΘΕΝ

Ἡ Ἱερὰ Σύνοδος τῆς Ἐκκλησίας τῆς Κύπρου συνῆλθε σήμερα Δευτέρα, 18 Ἰουλίου 2016, σὲ ἔκτακτη συνεδρία, ὑπὸ τὴν προεδρία τῆς Α.Μ. τοῦ Ἀρχιεπισκόπου κ.κ. Χρυσοστόμου καὶ ἐργάσθηκε ὡς ἑξῆς:

THE HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH AND LGBTQI ISSUES

 Natallia Vasilevich, The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church

Two documents of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church deal with LGBTQI issues:

ΘΕΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΣΥΝΟΔΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΡΩΣΙΚΗΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ ΕΠΙ ΤΗΣ ΣΥΝΟΔΟΥ ΣΤΗΝ ΚΡΗΤΗ

Russian

Κατά τη συνεδρία αυτής της 15^ης Ιουλίου 2016 η Ιερά Σύνοδος της Ορθοδόξου Εκκλησίας της Ρωσσίας ασχολήθηκε με την από 18 έως 26 Ιουνίου 2016 στην Κρήτη γενομένη Σύνοδο Προκαθημένων και Ιεραρχών των δέκα κατά τόπους Ορθοδόξων Εκκλησιών.

HOLY SYNOD OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE POSTPONED THE COUNCIL: HISTORY OF VATOPEDI 1932

7 June 2016, Natallia Vasilevich, The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church,

Once Pan-Orthodox Synod, convened for 19th of June, at Pentecost failed. Will it happen again?