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?

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE GREAT AND HOLY ORTHODOX COUNCIL (AUDIO)

During the week of June 19, the leaders of the self-governing Orthodox churches worldwide gathered on the island of Crete for the first global Council of the Orthodox Church in more than 1,000 years. 

RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH SYNOD REJECTS PAN-ORTHODOX STATUS OF CRETE COUNCIL

Moscow, July 15, Interfax - The Council which took place in Crete on June 20-25 cannot be regarded as pan-Orthodox, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church said in Moscow on Friday.

В.Р. Легойда: Священный Синод признал Собор на Крите важным событием, но отметил, что он не может рассматриваться как Всеправославный

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15 июля 2016 г. 18:02

' The Patriarchate of Moscow has just made an official statement: The Council is not Pan-Orthodox because there was no consensus of all 15''

UKRAINIAN QUESTION DIVIDES ORTHODOX WORLD

Maria Zaikina, the moscow times

It took over 1,000 years to gather the religious leaders of the many Eastern Orthodox churches in one place, and still, when it happened, not everyone was in attendance.

Η ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑΣ ΘΑ ΜΕΛΕΤΗΘΕΙ ΑΠΟ ΣΥΝΟΔΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ ΤΟΥ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΕΙΟΥ

Η ΑΥΤΟΚΕΦΑΛΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΟΥΚΡΑΝΙΑΣ ΘΑ ΜΕΛΕΤΗΘΕΙ ΑΠΟ ΣΥΝΟΔΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΤΡΟΠΗ ΤΟΥ ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΚΟΥ ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΕΙΟΥ

Документ: Мисија Православне Цркве у савременом свету

Документ: Мисија Православне Цркве у савременом свету
Η ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΗ ΤΗΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΟΥ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ ΕΝ ΤΩ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΩ ΚΟΣΜΩ
THE MISSION OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN TODAY’S WORLD
МИСИЈА ПРАВОСЛАВНЕ ЦРКВЕ У САВРЕМЕНОМ СВЕТУ

COMUNICAT DE PRESA REFERITOR LA DOCUMENTUL SINODAL PRIVIND IMPORTANTA POSTULUI

basilica.ro 

Sfântul și Marele Sinod al Bisericii Ortodoxe, întrunit în perioada 16-26 iunie 2016 în insula Creta, a subliniat importanța practicii postului și a binefacerilor sale spirituale.

ΝΗΣΤΕΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΠΑΝΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΗ ΣΥΝΟΔΟ

Του Αρχιμ. Βασιλείου Μπακογιάννη στην Romfea.gr

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Τό σύνολο τῶν σχολίων, σχετικά μέ τήν Πανορθόδοξη Σύνοδο, στρέφονται γύρω ἀπό τόν ἄν θά ἔπρεπε οἱ αἱρετικοί νά ὀνομασθοῦν «Ἐκκλησίες».

ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΠΡΟΣΩΠΕΙΟΝ ΣΤΟ ΠΡΟΣΩΠΟΝ - ΠΕΡΙ ΤΗΣ ΑΓΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΜΕΓΑΛΗΣ ΣΥΝΟΔΟΥ ΤΗΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΙΑΣ

Φως Φαναριου 

Γράφει ο Θεολόγος-Εκκλησιαστικός Ιστορικός-Νομικός Ιωάννης Ελ. Σιδηράς 

ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΠΡΟΣΩΠΕΙΟΝ ΣΤΟ ΠΡΟΣΩΠΟΝ 

THE HOLY & GREAT COUNCIL OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH: GOD'S CALL TO UNITY AND CHARITY

Archimandrite Nathanael Symeonides invites viewers to join the hundreds of Hierarchs, priests, deacons, monastics and laity who took part in the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, which His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew convened from June 16-27. Learn about the Council's work, and the Church's mission in and for the world.