The Fifth International Symposium of the IAODT, with the theme “Primacy and Primacies in the Church,” took place with the blessing of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of the Orthodox Church in Romania at the Caraiman Monastery, in September 25-27, 2016. The Symposium was made possible through th e gracious assistance of the “Justinian the Patriarch” Orthodox Theological Faculty of the University of Bucharest.
The participants of the conference included among others: Prof. Nicolae Mosoiu (Orthodox Theological Faculty of Sibiu, Romania): Considerations on Synodality/Conciliarity and Authority, with Special Reference to
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On September 9-10, the GlobeTheoLib Consortium Committee 2016 meeting, responsible for the Global Digital Library on Theology and Ecumenism, took place in Geneva (Switzerland). GlobeTheoLib was initiated in September 2011, by Globethics.net and the World Council of Churches, represented by its programme on Ecumenical Theological Education
An International Conference will be held in Volos on September 27-28, 2016, organized by the Volos Academy for Theological Studies in cooperation with the historic Catholic Academy of Bavaria. In the conference, which is part of an official visit of staff and friends of the Catholic Academy to the city of Volos and their acquaintance with Orthodoxy and Greece, a comparative approach of the relations
On August, 7-9, 2016, an international workshop, organized by the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict of Arizona State University was successfully held in London on the general theme: “Religion and Global Citizenship”. According to the rationale of the workshop, we live in a time when forces of globalization are in tension with various nationalistic movements and
Aikaterini Pekridou, who has been a member of Volos Academy since 2008, has been appointed Dialogue Secretary of the Conference of European Churches (CEC). She will start working for the Brussels based ecumenical organisation from autumn 2016. CEC has about 120 member Churches from the Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican, Old Catholic and Free Church
On July, 10, 2016, a reception of a six-member official delegation from the Russian city of Rostov took place during the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas, in Volos (Greece). During the reception His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatius of Demetrias and Almyros, welcomed the deputy Mayor of Rostov Mr. Sergey Kuznetsov, the Vice Rector of the Ecclesiastical Seminar of Rostov Fr. Grigory Gridnev, and four prominent members of the municipality of Rostov, while he warmly spoke about their
On June, 23-25, 2016, an International Conference, organized by the Orthodox Christian Studies Center of the Fordham University was successfully held on the general theme: “Traditions, Secularization, Fundamentalism”. The 2016 Patterson Conference was a featured event of the Fordham University Dodrabicentennial Celebration. Conference support provided by the Patterson Triennial Conference Endowment and the Ganister Orthodox Foundation Fund at the First Community Foundation Partnership of