ANNOUNCEMENT: THEOLOGICAL-ACADEMIC CONFERENCE ON THE PAN-ORTHODOX COUNCIL

February 2016 –ακτινες– www.pravoslavie.ru

Sponsored by the Dioceses of Glyfadas, Gortinos, Kithyron, Peireaus and the Synaxis of Clergy and Monastics, a conference addressing the upcoming Pan-Orthodox Council on the island of Crete in June will be held on Wednesday, March 23rd, 9 am – 9 pm in the “Melina Merkouri” Hall of the “Peace and Friendship” Stadium, in Peireaus, Greece.

Speakers include:

– Metropolitans Hierotheos (Vlachos) of Nafpaktou, Paul of Glyfada, Seraphim of Kithyron, Jeremy of Gortinos, Seraphim of Peireaus,
– Archimandrites Athanasius, Proigoumenos of Megali Meteora, and Paul Demetriakopoulos,
– Protopresbyters George Metallinos, Theodore Zisis, Sarantis Sarantou, Anastasiios Gotsopoulos, Angelos Angelokopoulos and Peter Heers,
– Professors Demetrios Tselingides and Stavros Botzovitis.

Topics include:

– Ecclesiological and Pastoral Problems of the non-participation of all the bishops of the Church
– The Church and Politics
– The Theological Dialogues and their Failure
– Old and New Calendar and the Celebration of Pascha
– Can a Pan-Orthodox Council redefine the traditionally understood borders and identity of the Church by assigning “ecclesiality” to the Heterodox?
– The Ethical and Canonical issues slated for discussion and the institution of fasting
– The absence of the clergy and laity at the Pan-Orthodox Council: A Pan-Orthodox Council without the fullness of the Faithful
– The Recognition of Baptism as the Basis for a New Ecclesiology (Alignment with Vatican II)
– The Holy Canons and the Pre-Syndoical Text: Relations of the Orthodox Church with the rest of the Christian World”
– The Inter-religious opening up of Orthodoxy in the Program of the Pan-Orthodox Council
– Orthodoxy Before the Challenge of Religious Syncretism
– The 8th and 9th Oecumenical Councils: Issues which the Pan-Orthodox Council should address

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