June 11th, 2016
June 10th, 2016
'Κρητικοί, ΠΡΟΣΟΧΗ, ο αρχιεπίσκοπός σας σάς δουλεύει'
π. Νικόλαος Μανώλης
June 10th, 2016
Georgian Orthodox Church will not take part in Pan-Orthodox Council
Over the past days several Orthodox churches have refused to attend the Pan-Orthodox Council
TBILISI, June 10. /TASS/. The Georgian Orthodox Church will not take part in the Pan-Orthodox Council to be held in Crete on June 17-27. The relevant decision was taken at a meeting of the church’s Holy Synod held in Tbilisi on Friday presided by Ilya II, the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia.
The Georgian Orthodox Church has confirmed local media reports on the issue in an...
June 10th, 2016
Is the Phanar about to Fall into Schism?
Source: Orthodox England
Two Local Orthodox Churches, Bulgaria and Antioch, have withdrawn from the Crete meeting, organized by Phanar bureaucrats in Constantinople. The Georgian Church, savagely insulted by the Phanar (just as it also insulted the Bulgarian Church, causing a diplomatic incident, and the Church of Greece, whose canonical territory it invaded) for its faithfulness to Orthodoxy, may not attend. The Serbian Church...
June 10th, 2016
Russian Orthodox Church Likely Not to Attend Pan-Orthodox Council
According to the vice president of the “Jerusalem” Russian Spiritual and Cultural Heritage Center, Oleg Fomin
The intrigue surrounding the relationship of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Pan-Orthodox Council, planned to take place June 16-27, will soon be resolved. “Russian Planet” learned of this at the Volgograd Second International Christian Forum. At the moment the Moscow Patriarchate has taken an ambivalent position, supporting critics and supporters of the Council.
“To my knowledge, I can bring...
June 9th, 2016
Constantinople Patriarchate Threatens the Unity of Orthodox World
- Historian Natalya Narochnitskaya
Moscow, June 8, Interfax - PhD in History Natalya Narochnitskaya, speaking about the difficulties on the way of convening the Pan-Orthodox Council, accused the Constantinople Patriarchate as its actions can split the Orthodox world.
"At the present moment, relations among the Constantinople Patriarchate and other Orthodox Local Orthodox Churches cause serious concerns in light of the last...
June 9th, 2016
The Essential Problems with the Holy and Great Council
His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and St. Vlasios
[Intervention addressed to the Hierarchs of the Church, May 2016]
The Great and Holy Council, which is due to gather in June of 2016 in Crete, was “the expectation” of many whose vision it was, and who tired in order to prepare for it, and now the Council finally moves towards its convocation. The question here put forth is whether the Holy and Great...
June 9th, 2016
Serbian Orthodox Church Refuses to Participate in Pan-Orthodox Council
Source: Interfax-religion
“Our Church sees obstacles to participation in the Holy and Great Council and proposes to postpone it for the time being,” the letter of the Serbian Orthodox Church Synod to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who is responsible for coordination of the preparations of the Council, said.
Before holding this historical event it is necessary to resolve the differences between...
June 8th, 2016
The "Great and Holy" Council: An Analysis, Questions, and Impressions
A Letter to His Beatitude, Our Father Patriarch John X and the Members of the Holy Synod of Antioch regarding the Great Council
His Beatitude, Our FatherJohn X (Yazigi)
and Their Emminences, the Members of the Holy Synod of Antioch
the Patriarchal Center, Balamand
Our Father, Your Beatitude the Patriarch,
After asking for your blessing and prayers, I present you, as a child of the Orthodox Church in the Holy See of ...
June 8th, 2016
“Changes to the Pan-Orthodox Documents Are Now Practically Impossible, but We Need a Working Council”
Interview with Metropolitan Gabriel of Lovech
Metropolitan Gabriel of Lovech explained to the site Dobrotolyubie (Philokalia) why the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has decided not to participate in the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church in Crete if it won’t be postponed.
—Your Eminence, in these days after the decision of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the media has...
June 8th, 2016
“The Pan-Orthodox Council is an historic event, no one must be absent”
Interview with Chrysostomos Savatos, Metropolitan of Messinia: “May the Holy Spirit enlighten the minds of primates. We need to get across an image of unity”
Introductory Notes on author and interview:
- This bishop has been rebuked by the Holy Synod of Greece for not informing them of decisions they (as reps of the Church) made in the dialogue with the Latins.
- He was one of the authors responsible for the changes to the texts last Oct. - changes which have now been condemned as unorthodox by many Local Orthodox...
June 8th, 2016
WARNING: Holy and Great Synod ahead
- Fr. Emmanuel Hatzidakis
A bomb threatens us, and most of us are unaware of it. I feel it is
my duty to inform you of the impending great danger we are heading into,
and take appropriate measures. No, it’s not about a nuclear threat or a
major terrorist attack, but something much worse—because such things
can put an end to our temporary life, whereas the danger about which I
want to warn you threatens our eternal...
June 8th, 2016
Russian Orthodox Church to hold emergency meeting of its Holy Synod
June 7th, 2016
If problems on way to Pan-Orthodox Council are not resolved, it is better postponed
- Metropolitan Hilarion
June 7, 2016
There is no sense in holding the Pan-Orthodox Council without taking into account the opinions of all of the Local Churches, the Moscow Patriarchate believes.
"We proposed that the Patriarch of Constantinople hold a conference before the Council to tackle all the issues due to which Churches are now refusing to participate one after another. If these...
June 7th, 2016
Antiochian Orthodox Church Will Not Participate In Pan-Orthodox Council Until Issues Are Resolved
From the secretariat of the Antiochian Patriarchate:
Source: Pravoslavie.Ru
Balamand, June 6, 2016
During the course of its seventh exceptional session still open since the 25th of May 2016, the Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Antioch held a meeting on the 6th of June 2016 presided by His Beatitude Patriarch John X and in the presence of Their Eminencies the Bishops, to study the positions of the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches related to the Holy and Great...
