The next International Congress of the Society for the Law of the Eastern Churches will take place September 16-20, 2019 in Rome, Italy. This momentous occasion marks the 50th Anniversary since the founding of the Society and provides an opportunity for participants to reflect upon these fifty years of encounter and how canonical tradition has assisted in the development of the Ecumenical dialogue.
On October 11th last year the Ecumenical Patriarchate
overturned its decision to temporarily transfer to Moscow the right to
ordain the popularly elected metropolitan of Kyiv on the basis of the
unfulfilled conditions on the part of ROC, as well as due to the change
in the global socio-political situation. Thus, the Ecumenical
Patriarchate brought back under its omophorion the Metropolis of Kyiv.