June 18th, 2016
Ignoring Orthodox Principles in the Organization of the Great Council
How NOT to forge greater Unity
On What Basis Were the 24 Bishops of Each Church Selected to go to the Council?
June 18th, 2016
Are the problems with the Pan Orthodox Council reflective of a power struggle in the Church?
Isn't this just a power play between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Ecumenical Patriarchate?
June 18th, 2016
The Myth of Pan-Orthodox Consensus (A)
True Conciliarity Requires Synodical Decisions
The Myth of Pan-Orthodox consensus
QUESTION 1: So, are you saying that there is no PAN ORTHODOX SUPPORT for the Council without decisions by the HOLY SYNODS?
June 18th, 2016
The Myth of Pan Orthodox Consensus (B)
Will the Dissenting Churches Still Have to Sign the Final Texts (As Patriarch Bartholomew has said)?
QUESTION:
Is it true that the Churches which refuse to agree to the final texts at the Council will still have to sign the texts, for the sake of Orthodox Unity?
June 18th, 2016
The Myth of Pan-Orthodox Approval: Does the Primate or the Synod speak for a Local Church?
Fr. Peter Heers
Published on Jun 17, 2016
Question:
What is happening with the Council? We hear that several Orthodox Churches have pulled out and are not going to the Council. But, did not all of the 14 Autocephalous Churches agree to the Council? Why are they pulling out at the last minute?
June 17th, 2016
“We decided not to go to Crete independently and according to conscience”
- Metropolitan Gabriel
June 1, 2016 the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church decided not to take part in the “Holy and Great Council” on Crete. The liberal Bulgarian media saw in it “the hand of Moscow.” Metropolitan Gabriel (Dinev) of Lochev reflects on what dogmatic considerations stood behind their decision and why it could not have been made under Moscow influence, how Bulgarians relate to Russians and...
June 17th, 2016
Orthodox Patriarchate of Moscow Will Not Come to the Pan Orthodox Council
June 17th, 2016
Message of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill to Primates and representatives of Local Orthodox Churches who have assembled in Crete
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sent a message to the Primates and representative of Local Orthodox Churches who have assembled in the Island of Crete. Below is the full text of the message.
To His Holiness Bartholomew
Archbishop of Constantinople – the New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch
To their Holinesses and Beatitudes the Primates of the Holy Churches of God
To archpastors, pastors, monastics and laity who have assembled on the Island of Crete
Your Holiness Patriarch...
June 17th, 2016
The "Relations" document that didn't exist before 2015
(and wasn't even made public until Jan. 2016, after the date for the Council was already set).
Published on Jun 17, 2016
Question:
Weren't all of the texts prepared for the council well known to everyone, since they have been drafting and preparing them for years, even decades?
June 17th, 2016
Questions & Answers on the Pan-Orthodox Council (Full Presentation)
- Fr. Peter Heers
June 15th, 2016 - As part of our ongoing weekly homilies, we had the great blessing this week to have Fr. Peter Heers speak to us. Fr. Peter answers many questions about the Pan-Orthodox Council.
June 16th, 2016
Metropolitan Onufry: “This meeting already won’t be a Great and Holy Pan-Orthodox Council”
In this interview with the Synodal Information-Education Department of the UOC, His Beatitude Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine answered questions about why the Russian Orthodox Church is not participating in the Pan-Orthodox Council which should begin its acts on June 19. He also expressed his view on whether the crisis of Council preparations will influence the situation of religious life in Ukraine and worldwide Orthodoxy.
—Your Beatitude, what was the final reason for the decision of the Russian Orthodox Church not to participate in the Council planned for the feast day of the Holy Trinity?
—Today the world is developing in a new format. Political and economic borders are gradually disappearing, which by themselves restricted...
June 16th, 2016
THE ONTOLOGY OF THE PERSON AND THE HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL (A Response to Protopresbyter Dr Doru Costache)
By George Siskos, ThD
June 16th, 2016
JUST BEFORE THE HOLY AND GREAT COUNCIL
By Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and St Vlassios HIEROTHEOS
June 14th, 2016
Athonite Monks on the Pan-Orthodox Council
- Athanasios Zoitakis
Athonite monasticism has always stood on guard for the purity of Orthodoxy. Athonites have actively participated in the work of Church councils and came out against the unions of Lyons and Florence. Ecumenical contacts have repeatedly come under criticism from Athonites (letters to the Ecumenical Patriarchate, proclamations, reports of the Holy Kinot), however most Athonite monks throughout the whole...
June 13th, 2016
An Email from the Messaging Committee for the Great Council
Just
got this email from the "Messaging Comittee" for the "Great Council".
Two interesting details emerge from this: Serbia will attend and they
are completely ignoring the fact that three Local Orthodox Churches will
not be in attendance...
