PATRIARCH KIRILL CONGRATULATES HEADS OF NON-ORTHODOX CHURCHES ON THE NATIVITY OF CHRIST

 ΡΩΣΙΚΗ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ. Τμήμα Εξωτερικών Εκκλησιαστικών Σχέσεων

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia sent Christmas greeting to the heads of the non-Orthodox Churches, including Pope Francis, Patriarch Mar Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Church, Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Gewargis III Sliwa of the Assyrian Church of the East, Patriarch Bechara Butros Cardinal al-Rai of the Maronite Church, Metropolitan Baselios Marthoma Paulose II, Catholic of the East.

The greeting reads as follows:

ΜΕΤΑ ΑΠΟ 25 ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΔΗΜΙΟΥΡΓΙΚΟΥ ΕΡΓΟΥ ΔΟΘΗΚΕ Η ΑΛΒΑΝΙΚΗ ΥΠΗΚΟΟΤΗΤΑ ΣΤΟΝ ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟ ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΟ

 

Μετά από 25 χρόνια δημιουργικού

έργου δόθηκε η αλβανική υπηκοότητα

στον Αρχιεπίσκοπο Αναστάσιο

Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania 

Με θερμή συγχαρητήρια επιστολή του ο εξοχότατος Πρόεδρος της Δημοκρατίας της Αλβανίας κ. Ilir Meta  στις 24 Δεκεμβρίου 2017 ανακοίνωσε στον Αρχιεπίσκοπο Τιράνων Δυρραχίου και πάσης Αλβανίας κ. Αναστάσιο ότι με το Προεδρικό Διάταγμα 10700/22.12.2017 του χορηγήθηκε η Αλβανική υπηκοότητα. Την επιστολή παρέδωσε στον Αρχιεπίσκοπο στο Συνοδικό Μέγαρο της Ορθοδόξου Αυτοκεφάλου Εκκλησίας της Αλβανίας ο πρέσβυς κ. Arben Cici, Επικεφαλής των Διευθύνσεων της Προεδρίας.

A GREETING FROM THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES CHRISTMAS 2017

by Richard Ochieng, St Clement Orthodox Primary School, Kenya.

A greeting from the World Council of Churches

wcc 

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY’S CHRISTMAS 2017 SERMON

This is the text of the Christmas Day sermon preached by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, at Canterbury Cathedral today.

HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS SOLEMNITY OF THE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD

 

Official English translation of Pope Francis' homily for Christmas Mass During the Night

Full official English translation of Pope Francis' homily for the Mass During the Night for Christmas 2017: 

Homily of His Holiness Pope Francis

Solemnity of the Nativity of Our Lord
Mass during the Night

24 December 2017

MESSAGE BY HIS ALL-HOLINESS ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW 2017 - ISLAMIC SOLIDARITY YEAR: INTERFAITH AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

MESSAGE by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew “2017 - Islamic Solidarity Year: Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue” (Baku, December 21, 2017)

44TH EPISCOPAL CONSECRATION ANNIVERSARY OF HIS HOLINESS ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW

Basilica Ro.

On 25 December 2017 His Holiness Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, celebrates his episcopal consecration anniversary.

ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΙΚΗ ΕΓΚΥΚΛΙΟΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΑ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΑ 2017

 

ΧΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΟΣ

ἐλέῳ Θεοῦ, Ἀρχιεπίσκοπος Νέας Ἰουστινιανῆς καὶ πάσης Κύπρου,

παντὶ τῷ Χριστεπωνύμῳ Πληρώματι

τῆς Ἁγιωτάτης Ἀποστολικῆς Ἐκκλησίας τῆς Κύπρου.

ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΙΑΤΙΚΗ ΕΓΚΥΚΛΙΟ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΙΑΣ

Θ Ε Ο Δ Ω Ρ Ο Σ Β΄
ΕΛΕΩι ΘΕΟΥ ΠΑΠΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ
ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΙΑΣ, ΠΑΣΗΣ ΓΗΣ ΑΙΓΥΠΤΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΣΗΣ ΑΦΡΙΚΗΣ
ΠΑΝΤΙ Τῼ ΠΛΗΡΩΜΑΤΙ
ΤΟΥ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΙΚΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΙΚΟΥ ΘΡΟΝΟΥ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΙΑΣ
ΧΑΡΙΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΛΕΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΙΡΗΝΗ
ΠΑΡΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΝ ΒΗΘΛΕΕΜ ΓΕΝΝΗΘΕΝΤΟΣ
ΚΥΡΙΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΘΕΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΗΜΩΝ ΙΗΣΟΥ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ

Ο ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΣ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΓΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΣΥΝΟΔΟ ΣΕ ΤΗΛΕΟΠΤΙΚΟ ΣΤΑΘΜΟ ΤΗΣ ΓΕΩΡΓΙΑΣ (ΒΙΝΤΕΟ)

Φως Φαναρίου

Exclusive Interview with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew by Imedi TV about the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (in Greek)

CHRISMAS PASTORAL MESSAGE OF PATRIACH OF ANTIOCH AND ALL THE EAST

The Chrismas Pastoral Letter addressed by His Beatitude Patriarch John X Patriarch of Antioch and of All the East to the believers of the Antiochian Orthodox Church:

ΤΟ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΙΑΤΙΚΟ ΜΗΝΥΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ

Τέκνα καί ἀδελφοί μου ἐν Χριστῷ,
Χριστός γεννᾶται, δοξάσατε·

ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΣ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ: Η ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΘΕΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΥ ΚΑΙ Η ΜΕΓΑΛΗ ΣΥΝΟΔΟΣ

Photo by Romanian Patriarchate, basilica ro.

English-Greek-Italiano

METROPOLITAN HILARION OF VOLOKOLAMSK VISITS BARI

 The Russian Orthodox Church. Department for External Church Relations

Greek-English

On December 18-19, 2017, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), visited Bari, Italy, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.

ΤΟ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΙΑΤΙΚΟ ΜΗΝΥΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΥ ΑΛΒΑΝΙΑΣ ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΟΥ

 "ὁ Θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν. ἐν τούτῳ ἐφανερώθη ἡ ἀγάπη τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν ἡμῖν, ὅτι τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ τὸν μονογενῆ ἀπέσταλκεν ὁ Θεὸς εἰς τὸν κόσμον ἵνα ζήσωμεν δι᾿ αὐτοῦ"

 (Α΄ Ιω. 4:8-9)

ΤΟ ΜΗΝΥΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΗ ΤΑΛΛΙΝΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΣΘΟΝΙΑΣ ΣΤΕΦΑΝΟΥ ΓΙΑ ΤΑ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΑ

«Και ο Λόγος σαρξ εγένετο και εσκήνωσεν εν ημιν, και εθεασάμεθα την δόξαν αυτού,
δόξαν ως μονογενούς παρά πατρός, πλήρης χάριτος και αληθείας» (Ιω. 1, 14).
Θεοφιλέστατοι, αγαπημένοι Αδελφοί συνεπίσκοποι,
Εκλεκτά μέλη του Κλήρου μας, Ιερείς και Διάκονοι,
Από την Εκκλησία Εσθονίας

ΜΥΡΙΣΕ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΑ..." Ο ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ ΑΛΒΑΝΙΑΣ ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΟΣ ΣΤΙΣ «ΙΣΤΟΡΙΕΣ» ΤΟΥ ΣΚΑΪ (20/12/17) Video

Μια αποκλειστική συνέντευξη του Αρχιεπισκόπου Αλβανίας Αναστάσιου παρουσιάζουν οι «Ιστορίες» στον ΣΚΑΪ.

FURTHER UP & FURTHER IN: ANGLICANS & ORTHODOX IN CONVERSATION WITH CS LEWIS

  Orthodox School of Theology at Trinity College

Join us for an evening of conversation with CS Lewis featuring guest speakers from the Orthodox and Anglican traditions.

MESSAGE OF HIS HOLY BEATITUDE THE PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM THEOPHILOS III ON THE OCCASION OF CHRISTMAS 2017

Πατριαρχείον Ιεροσολύμων

Greek-English

MESSAGE
OF HIS HOLY BEATITUDE THE PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM THEOPHILOS III ON THE OCCASION OF CHRISTMAS 2017

PRIN HARUL LUI DUMNEZEU, ARHIEPISCOPUL BUCUREŞTILOR, MITROPOLITUL MUNTENIEI ŞI DOBROGEI, LOCŢIITORUL TRONULUI CEZAREEI CAPADOCIEI ŞI PATRIARHUL BISERICII ORTODOXE ROMÂNE

† DANIEL

PRIN HARUL LUI DUMNEZEU, ARHIEPISCOPUL BUCUREŞTILOR, MITROPOLITUL MUNTENIEI ŞI DOBROGEI,

LOCŢIITORUL TRONULUI CEZAREEI CAPADOCIEI

ŞI

PATRIARHUL BISERICII ORTODOXE ROMÂNE

ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΙΚΗ ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞΙΣ ΕΠΙ ΤΟΙΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΟΙΣ- PATRIARCHAL PROCLAMATION OF CHRISTMAS 2017

Οικουμενικόν Πατριαρχείον

Greek-English-Italiano

ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΙΚΗ ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞΙΣ
ΕΠΙ ΤΟΙΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥΓΕΝΝΟΙΣ
+ Β Α Ρ Θ Ο Λ Ο Μ Α Ι Ο Σ
ΕΛΕῼ ΘΕΟΥ ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥΠΟΛΕΩΣ,
ΝΕΑΣ ΡΩΜΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΣ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ
ΠΑΝΤΙ Τῼ ΠΛΗΡΩΜΑΤΙ ΤΗΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ
ΧΑΡΙΝ, ΕΛΕΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΙΡΗΝΗΝ
ΠΑΡΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΝ ΒΗΘΛΕΕΜ ΓΕΝΝΗΘΕΝΤΟΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ

SAN NICOLA DI MIRA E LO STATO ATTUALE DELLE RELAZIONI ORTODOSSO-CATTOLICHE

 

 Arcidiocesi di Bari-Bitonto

San Nicola di Mira e lo stato attuale delle relazioni ortodosso-cattoliche

Lectio Doctoralis di S. Em. Hilarion Alfeev, Metropolita di Volokolamsk, Presidente del Dipartimento per le relazioni esterne del Patriarcato di Mosca, in occasione del Diploma di Laurea ad Honorem in Sacra Teologia a lui conferito lunedì 18 dicembre 2017, presso l'Aula Magna "Enrico Nicodemo" dell'Istituto di Teologia Ecumenico-Patristica "San Nicola" di Bari

ΔΙΑΒΑΖΟΝΤΑΣ ΤΗΝ ΑΓΙΑ ΓΡΑΦΗ

Π. Τζόν Μπέρ (John Behr)  |  English  |  српски

ΠΡΕΠΕΙ ΟΙ ΧΡΙΣΤΙΑΝΟΙ ΝΑ ΕΙΝΑΙ ΚΟΜΜΟΥΝΙΣΤΕΣ;

Ντέιβιντ Μπέντλεϋ Χάρτ (David Bentley Hart)  |  English

Αυτό το άρθρο πρωτοεμφανίστηκε στην Κυριακάτικη Επιθεώρηση της εφημερίδας New YorkTimes, και αναδημοσιεύθηκε εδώ με την άδεια του συγγραφέα.

RESPONSE TO THE CHIETI DOCUMENT IS ANOTHER STEP FORWARD FOR THE ORTHODOX AND ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES’ COMMON UNDERSTANDING IN SERVICE OF UNITY

Thursday, December 14, 2017

WASHINGTON—The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation (NAOCTC) has released its response to the most recent document produced by the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. Entitled, “Synodality and Primacy During the First Millennium: Towards a Common Understanding in Service to the Unity of the Church,” this work of the international dialogue was released in September 2016. It is often referred to as, “The Chieti Document,” because it was finalized during a meeting in Chieti, Italy.

IL PATRIARCA ATENAGORA E CHIARA LUBICH; PROTAGONISTI DELL’UNITA”

“IL PATRIARCA ATENAGORA E CHIARA LUBICH;

PROTAGONISTI DELL’UNITÀ”

di Sua Eminenza Reverendissima il Metropolita Gennadios

Arcivescovo Ortodosso d’Italia e Malta

ORTHODOXE KIRCHE UND OKUMENISCHE BEWEGUNG NACH DER HEILIGEN UND GROΒEN SYNODE

 

Orthodoxe Kirche und Ökumenische Bewegung nach der Heiligen und Großen Synode

von Stylianos Ch. Tsompanidis, Τessaloniki

AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF LUTHER IN PROTESTANT AND ORTHODOX PERSPECTIVES

 

Ecumenical Patriarchate Permanent Delegation to the World Council of Churches

The Faculty of Theology of the University of Geneva and the Institute of Post-Graduated Studies in Orthodox Theology in Chambésy (Switerland) co-organized an International Conference on the Anthropology of Luther in Protestant and Orthodox Perspectives on 7-8 December 2017 to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

THE OFFICIAL POSITION OF THE UOC-KP ON PATRIARCH FILARET'S LETTER TO ROC

Οn December 1, at an official press conference in the Kyiv Patriarchate, Patriarch Filaret commented why he wrote a letter to Patriarch Kirill and Russian hierarchs. According to him, it was neither Russia’s nor Ukraine’s initiative, but the one of America.

REZEPTION ALS CHANCE ZUM AUFBRUCH. PERSPEKTIVEN DER ORTHODOXEN KIRCHE NACH DER SYNODE AUF KRETA

 

Ioan momga,  Rezeption als Chance zum Aufbruch. Perspektiven der Orthodoxen Kirche nach der Synode auf Kreta

Ο ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ ΡΩΣΙΑΣ ΚΥΡΙΛΛΟΣ ΚΑΙ Ο ΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΡΩΣΙΑΣ ΜΕ ΤΙΣ ΑΝΤΙΠΡΟΣΩΠΕΙΕΣ ΤΩΝ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΩΝ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΩΝ (ΦΩΤΟ)

ΡΩΣΙΚΗ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ. Τμήμα Εξωτερικών Εκκλησιαστικών Σχέσεων (ΦΩΤΟ)

PATRIARCH KIRILL MEETS WITH DELEGATION OF BULGARIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

On 6 December 2017, at the Patriarchal and Synodal residence in St. Daniel’s Monastery in Moscow, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with the delegation of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

PATRIARCH KIRILL MEETS WITH HIS BEATITUDE PATRIARCH THEODOROS II OF ALEXANDRIA

On 5 December 2017, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia had a brotherly talk with His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa at the Patriarchal residence located in St. Daniel’s stavropegic monastery.

PATRIARCH KIRILL MEETS WITH PATRIARCH DANIEL OF ROMANIA

December 3, 2017 – His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of Romania at the patriarchal residence in the St. Daniel monastery.

PATRIARCH KIRILL MEETS WITH DELEGATION OF GEORGIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

On 6 December 2017, at the Patriarchal residence in St. Daniel’s Monastery in Moscow, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with the delegation of the Georgian Orthodox Church which had arrived in Moscow to take part in the celebrations marking the centenary of the restoration of the Patriarchate in the Russian Orthodox Church.

PATRIARCH KIRILL MEETS WITH HIS BEATITUDE PATRIARCH JOHN X OF ANTIOCH

 The Russian Orthodox Church. Department for External Church Relations

On 5 December 2017, at the Patriarchal residence in St. Daniel’s Monastery in Moscow, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and All the East.

PRIMATE OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH MEETS WITH HIS BEATITUDE ARCHBISHOP ANASTASIOS OF TIRANA AND ALL ALBANIA

On 5 December 2017, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana and All Albania at the Patriarchal residence located in St. Daniel’s stavropegic monastery.

PATRIARCH KIRILL MEETS WITH HIS BEATITUDE METROPOLITAN RASTISLAV OF THE CZECH LANDS AND SLOVAKIA

 The Russian Orthodox Church. Department for External Church Relations

On 6 December 2017, at the Patriarchal residence in St. Daniel’s Monastery in Moscow, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church met with His Beatitude Metropolitan Rastislav of the Czech Lands and Slovakia.

ΣΥΝΑΝΤΗΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗ ΚΥΡΙΛΛΟΥ ΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΜΑΚΑΡΙΩΤΑΤΟ ΑΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ ΧΡΥΣΟΣΤΟΜΟ

 ΡΩΣΙΚΗ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ. Τμήμα Εξωτερικών Εκκλησιαστικών Σχέσεων

Με τον Μακαριώτατο Αρχιεπίσκοπο Νέας Ιουστινιανής και πάσης Κύπρου κ.κ. Χρυσόστομο είχε συνάντηση στις 6 Δεκεμβρίου 2017 στην Πατριαρχική και Συνοδική κατοικία της Ιεράς Μονής Αγίου Δανιήλ Μόσχας ο Αγιώτατος Πατριάρχης Μόσχας και Πασών των Ρωσσιών κ.κ. Κύριλλος.

Προ της ενάρξεως της αδελφικής επικοινωνίας ετελέσθη δοξολογία στο παρεκκλήσιο των πάντων ἐν τῃ Ρωσσίᾳ διαλαμψάντων Αγίων της κατοικίας.

ADDRESS OF H.H.B. THE PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM TO THE ORTHODOX-JEWISH DIALOGUE AT THE NOTRE DAME CENTRE IN JERUSALEM

Your All-Holiness,
Respected Members of this Dialogue,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

We greet you warmly as you meet in the important dialogue, and we are especially pleased as this is the first time that this dialogue is meeting in this official and public way.