FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RECEPTIVE ECUMENISM, – 25 JUNE 2020, SIGTUNA, SWEDEN

Monday 22 - Thursday 25 June 2020Sigtuna, Sweden

UKRAINE GETS A CHURCH OF ITS OWN—AND VLADIMIR PUTIN GLOWERS

As Moscow tries to keep ex-Soviet republics under its sway, a move by the Eastern Orthodox church has plunged Russia and Ukraine into a contest for Ukrainians’ religious loyalties 

MESSAGE OF THE POPE FRANCIS TO METHODIST CHURCHES AND VALDESIANS ON THE OCCASION OF THE ANNUAL OPENING OF THE SYNOD

MESSAGGIO DEL SANTO PADRE FRANCESCO
ALLE CHIESE METODISTE E VALDESI
IN OCCASIONE DELL'APERTURA ANNUALE DEL SINODO
[Torre Pellice, Torino, 25-30 Agosto 2019] 

ΠΕΡΙ ΤΩΝ ΧΕΙΡΟΤΟΝΙΩΝ ΣΤΗΝ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΚΗ ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΗ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ

 

  Του Dmytro Horyevoy Απόδοση στα ελληνικά: Αλέξανδρος Ρωμηόπουλος

In Oukrania: Про хіротонії в УАПЦ

ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΠΛΕΙΟΨΗΦΙΑ – ΑΚΡΙΒΕΙΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΗ ΜΕΙΟΨΗΦΙΑ

του Γιάννη Χαιρόπουλου  |  English, Public Orthodoxy

Ένα από τα ισχυρά σημεία της Ορθόδοξης Εκκλησίας είναι η ποιμαντική φροντίδα που παρέχει στους πιστούς.

THREE WAYS OF SEEING A 21ST-CENTURY GLOSS ON HOW WE VIEW THE WORLD

 by Susan P. Bachelder, Public Orthodoxy

Rowan Williams has often said that many things are said in his name, so I claim full responsibility for what is a personal and subjective interpretation of the keynote address His Grace, the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury, gave this June at The Patterson Triennial Conference.

GEORGES FLOROVSKY ON HUMAN RIGHTS? AN ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Ciprian Iulian Toroczkai, GEORGES FLOROVSKY ON HUMAN RIGHTS? AN ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE, European Journal of Science and Theology, April 2019, Vol.15, No.2, 135-147

THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL CONTOURS OF FLOROVSKY’S NEOPATRISTIC THEOLOGY

Paul Gavrilyuk,  'Epistemological Contours of Florovsky's Neopatristic Theology', Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, 69 (2017), 11-24.

ΣΤΟΝ ΠΡΟΚΑΘΗΜΕΝΟ ΚΙΕΒΟΥ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΣΗΣ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΙΟ ΤΟ ΒΡΑΒΕΙΟ « ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ ΑΘΗΝΑΓΟΡΑΣ»

Το βραβείο Ανθρωπίνων Δικαιωμάτων «Αθηναγόρας» των εν εν Αμερική Αρχόντων του Οικουμενικού Πατριαρχείου, αναμένεται να απονεμηθεί φέτος στον Μητροπολίτη Κιέβου και Πάσης Ουκρανίας κ. Επιφάνιο.

THE MOST BLESSED METROPOLITAN EPIPHANIOS, PRIMATE OF THE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH, THANKED GOD FOR THE INDEPENDENT UKRAINE.

 Nikolaus Wiese

THE MOST BLESSED METROPOLITAN EPIPHANIOS, PRIMATE OF THE UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH, THANKED GOD FOR THE INDEPENDENT UKRAINE.

HIS ALL-HOLINESS ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW STATEMENT ON THE GLOBAL WILDFIRES

 Ecumenical Patriarchate
His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Statement on the Global Wildfires

In recent weeks, our planet has witnessed extreme heatwaves and expansive wildfires throughout the world—from the rain forests of the Amazon and desert regions of Africa, normally snow-covered regions such as the Arctic and Alaska to far away countries from Spain to Siberia.

METROPOLITAN EPIPHANIOS OF KYIV AND ALL UKRAINE TO RECEIVE THE 2019 ATHENAGORAS HUMAN RIGHTS AWARD

Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate

His Beatitude Metropolitan Epiphanios of Ukraine watches as His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew signs the Tome of Autocephaly on January 5, 2019, which granted full independence to the Church of Ukraine.
 Η Αυτού Θειοτάτην Μακαριώτατα ο Μητροπολίτης Κιέβου και Πάσης Ουκρανίας κ.κ. Επιφάνιος θα λάβει το Βραβείο ''Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης Αθηναγόρας-Ανθρώπινα Δικαιώματα'', από τους Άρχοντες του Οικουμενικού Πατριαρχείου εν Αμερική

ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ ΜΑΚΑΡΙΟΣ ΜΑΛΕΤΙΤΣ: «ΟΙ ΤΟΠΙΚΕΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΕΣ ΔΕΝ ΠΡΕΠΕΙ ΝΑ ΕΧΟΥΝ ΑΜΦΙΒΟΛΙΕΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΙΣ ΧΕΙΡΟΤΟΝΙΕΣ»

  Σχετικά με τη κατάσταση στην ΟΕΟ, μεταβάσεις κοινοτήτων, ξένους διπλωμάτες, χειροτονίες της ΟΑΟΕ και παρασκηνιακές λεπτομέρειες της Ενωτικής Συνόδου Απόσπασμα από συνέντευξη του Μητροπολίτη Μακάριου (Μαλέτιτς) στους δημοσιογράφους Tatiana Derkatch και Dmytro Horyevoy. Απόδοση στα ελληνικά: Αλέξανδρος Ρωμηόπουλος 

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN AND GEORGES FLOROVSKY: AN ORTHODOX-CATHOLIC DIALOGUE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOCTRINE

Fr. Daniel Lattier

This dissertation examines the idea of doctrinal development in the writings of John Henry Newman and Georges Florovsky, who are both representative thinkers in their respective Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions.

FLOROVSKY’S ECUMENISM ORTHODOX ECUMENISM AS MISSIONARY ACTIVITY AND THE LIMITS OF THE CHURCH

By Dr Brandon Gallaher, Sourozh, 111 (Nov. 2016), 86-97.

Florovsky’s essential ecumenical position was forged in the mid-1930s in reaction to Bulgakov’s ecumenical work. Bulgakov believed both that the churches might be led to unity by limited episcopally blessed intercommunion and that although the Orthodox Church most fully embodied the Church Universal or Una Sancta, the Church Universal was not bound by its limits and included to a lesser degree other ecclesial bodies as true churches.1

THE ECCLESIAL SITUATION IN UKRAINE AFTER THE TOMOS OF AUTOCEPHALY

Andriy Chirovsky, Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies Vol. 59 (2018) Nos. 1–4, pp. 1–10.

METROPOLITAN JOSEPH WELCOMES ARCHBISHOP ELPIDOPHOROS TO ARCHDIOCESAN HEADQUARTERS

  Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

Fr. Thomas Zain

On Thursday, August 22, His Eminence Metropolitan Joseph hosted the newly elected Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America at the headquarters of the Antiochian Archdiocese in Englewood, New Jersey. Although the two hierarchs have met in the past on a few occasions, this was the first face-to-face meeting since the new archbishop was enthroned in June.

THE IMPORTANCE OF CHRISTOLOGY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY ST ANDREW’S 3RD THEOLOGY SYMPOSIUM 2019 FRIDAY 20 - SATURDAY 21 SEPTEMBER, 2019

 St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College

The Symposium will be held from Friday 20 September - Saturday 21 September, 2019 at St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College - 242 Cleveland St, Redfern, NSW, 2016.

A DIALOGUE ON ORTHODOX ANTHROPOLOGY

A DIALOGUE ON ORTHODOX ANTHROPOLOGY

ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW AT THE 10TH WORLD ASSEMBLY OF RELIGIONS FOR PEACE

 Ecumenical Patriarchate Permanent Delegation to the World Council of Churches

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew attended the 10th World Assembly of Religions for Peace in Lindau (Germany) from 20-23 August 2019 where he delivered the keynote address. Religions for Peace, in partnership with the Foundation Peace Dialogue of the World Religions and Civil Society, is the world’s most representative, multi-religious gathering of religious communities.

ΣΤΟ ΑΓΙΟΝ ΟΡΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΣΤΗΝ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ Ο ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΣ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΗΣ

Πυρετώδεις είναι οι προετοιμασίες στο Άγιον Όρος για την προσκυνηματική επίσκεψη του Οικουμενικού Πατριάρχη κ. Βαρθολομαίου, 19-22 Οκτωβρίου. Είναι η 7η κατά σειρά επίσκεψη του Οικουμενικού Πατριάρχη στην αθωνική πολιτεία και η πρώτη με την ιδιότητά του αυτή στην Ιερά Μονή Βατοπεδίου, στην οποία θα βρεθεί την Δευτέρα 21 Οκτωβρίου.

ARCHBISHOP OF AUSTRALIA MAKARIOS IN NSW PARLIAMENTARY FRIENDS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

 Tania Mihailuk MP

It was a privilege to co-host the NSW Parliamentary Friends of Religious Freedom’s Inaugural ‘Religious Freedom Forum’ today, held in the Jubilee Room at Parliament House.

OVER 30 BISHOPS OF OCU MARK 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF RENEWAL OF UKRAINIAN CHURCH AUTOCEPHALY

The Episcopal Liturgy, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the third revival of the UAOC, was held in the Church of Sts Volodymyr and Olga of the OCU in Lviv and Vynnyky today, on August 18.

ΑΚΡΙΒΕΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΙΣ ΧΕΙΡΟΤΟΝΙΕΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΚΤΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΟΥ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ

Ιερά Μητρόπολις Ναυπάκτου και Αγίου Βλασίου 

 Ἀκρίβεια καί οἰκονομία γιά τίς χειροτονίες τῶν ἐκτός τῆς Ὀρθοδόξου Ἐκκλησίας
Σεβ. Μητροπολίτου Ναυπάκτου καί Ἁγίου Βλασίου Ἱεροθέου

ARCHBISHOP ELPIDOPHOROS MEETS WITH ARCHBISHOP ANOUSHAVAN, PRELATE OF THE EASTERN PRELACY OF THE ARMENIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH

 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
August 20, 2019

NEW YORK – On Tuesday, August 20, 2019, Archbishop Elpidophoros met with Archbishop Anoushavan Tanielian, Prelate of the Eastern Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church under the jurisdiction of the Holy See of the Great House of Cilicia.

TENTH EDITION OF RELIGIONS FOR PEACE CONFERENCE KICKS OFF IN GERMANY

The Religions for Peace (RfP) conference began its 10th World Assembly in Lindau, Germany, from 20-23 August 2019 under the assembly theme “Caring for our Common Future”.

KEYNOTE REMARKS BY HIS ALL-HOLINESS ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW 10TH WORLD ASSEMBLY OF RELIGIONS FOR PEACE (Lindau, Germany, 20-23 August 2019)

Ecumenical Patriarchate 

KEYNOTE REMARKS
By His All-Holiness
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
10th World Assembly of Religions for Peace
(Lindau, Germany, 20-23 August 2019)

AΡΧΙΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ ΚΥΠΡΟΥ: ΣΤΗΝ ΙΕΡΑ ΣΥΝΟΔΟ ΤΟ ΘΕΜΑ ΤΩΝ ΡΩΣΩΝ

 Εκκλησία Κύπρου

«Είναι μια κατάσταση απαράδεκτη», τόνισε στον «Φ» ο Αρχιεπίσκοπος Χρυσόστομος, σχολιάζοντας το χθεσινό ρεπορτάζ για τη «Ρωσική Ορθόδοξη Εκκλησία Βορείου Κύπρου», που έχει έδρα στην κατεχόμενη Κερύνεια.

Η ΑΝΑΣΥΣΤΑΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΕΙΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΜΟΣΧΑΣ ΤΟ 1918 ΚΑΙ Η ΜΕΤΑΛΛΑΞΗ ΤΟΥ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣΤΙΚΟΥ ΠΡΟΟΡΙΣΜΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΤΟ 1943

Του Καθηγητή Αριστείδη Πανώτη 

Τα κοσμοϊστορικά γεγονότα που συνέβησαν στον 20ό αιώνα είχαν και τεράστιες επιπτώσεις στην Ιστορία της Εκκλησίας στην καθ’ ημάς Ανατολή. 

RESOLUTION ON UKRAINIAN CITIZENS ILLEGALLY DETAINED ON THE TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND IN THE OCCUPIED CRIMEA AND DONBAS

As a result of Russian Federation occupying the Crimea and starting the war in Donbas several hundreds of people were imprisoned, mostly because of their public nonviolent activities. Among them, there are: film director Oleg Sentsov, student Pavlo Hryb, human rights advocate Emir-Useiyin Kuku, a journalist from Donetsk Stanislav Asieiev, coordinator of Crimean Solidarity Server Mustafayev, farmer Volodymyr Balukh, university teacher Oleh Glaziuk and others.

ΕΚΔΗΛΩΣΕΙΣ ΤΙΜΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΜΝΗΜΗΣ ΓΙΑ ΟΣΟΥΣ ΑΓΩΝΙΣΤΗΚΑΝ ΔΙΑΧΡΟΝΙΚΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗΣ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑΣ

Εκδηλώσεις τιμής και μνήμης για όσους αγωνίστηκαν διαχρονικά για την αυτοκεφάλια της Ορθόδοξης Εκκλησίας της Ουκρανίας

METROPOLITAN JOHN OF PERGAMON LECTURE : «PATRISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE MODERN WORLD»

 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira & Great Britain

On Saturday, 17 August, His Eminence Metropolitan John of Pergamon gave a lecture at the University of Notre Dame's London Global Gateway on the topic of "Patristic Anthropology and the modern world".

DARYA MELEKHOVA ON VESTI.FM: CONSTANTINOPLE’S TOMOS DID NOT HELP FILARET TO RETURN TO POWER

Ukrainian Metropolitan Filaret’s mistakes led to complete loss of power by him in the church world, even though the anathema was removed, the analyst of the federal news agency Vestnik Kavkaza, Darya Melekhova told in the National Question program on the Vesti.FM.

METROPOLITAN EPIPHANIUS, UWC REPRESENTATIVES DISCUSS EXPANDING COOPERATION

On August 15, 2019, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Epiphanius met with First Vice President of the Ukrainian World Congress Stefan Romaniw and Director of the UWC Mission to Ukraine Serhiy Kasyanchuk.

AN INDEPENDENT STATE NEEDS AN INDEPENDENT CHURCH“ THE FIGHT FOR CANONICAL INDEPENDENCE FOR UKRAINIAN ORTHODOXY

Tadeusz A. Olszański: “An independent state needs an independent Church“ The fight for canonical independence for Ukrainian Orthodoxy. OSW Commentary No. 272, 11.06.2018

PROTESTANTS AND THE UKRAINIAN GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH: IN SEARCH OF INCLUSIVE SOLUTIONS

 

 Cherenkov, Mykhailo (2018) "Protestants and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church: In Search of Inclusive Solutions," Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe: Vol. 38 : Iss. 2 , Article 3.

CYRIL HOVORUN, FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL THEOLOGY IN UKRAINIAN CONTEXT

Cyril Hovorun, “Foundations of Political Theology in Ukrainian Context.”, In Religion, State, Society, and Identity in Transition Ukraine, Oisterwijk: Wolf Legal Publishers, 2015, pp.281-298.

UKRAINIAN AUTOCEPHALY AND LOCAL CHURCHES: UNITY ABOVE ALL – OPED

By Jelena Rakocevic*, eurasiareview

It’s been more than six month since the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) was created and received autocephaly from the Ecumenical Patriarchate but scandals surrounding it don’t subside. On the one hand, the Ecumenical Patriarch’s authority in the Greek world remains incontestable.

ΔΙΕΥΚΡΙΝΙΣΕΙΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΙΣ ΑΠΟΨΕΙΣ ΜΟΥ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΚΟ ΖΗΤΗΜΑ

Ιερά Μητρόπολη Ναυπάκτου και Αγίου Βλασίου

Διευκρινίσεις γιά τίς ἀπόψεις μου γιά τό Οὐκρανικό ζήτημα
τοῦ Μητροπολίτου Ναυπάκτου καί Ἁγίου Βλασίου Ἱεροθέου

UKRAINIAN AUTOCEPHALOUS ORTHODOX CHURCH CEASES TO EXIST

Kiev, August 14, Interfax - The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church has ceased to exist, Vekhovnaya Rada's official gazette announced today.