Canon 28 and Eastern Papalism: Cause or Effect?

By: George C. Michalopulos. The purpose of this essay is to evaluate the primatial claims of the Church of Constantinople and specifically, Canon 28 of the Council of Chalcedon…

A Letter To The Ecumenical Patriarch Concerning The Situation Of The Diaspora

By: Patriarch Alexis of Moscow and All Russia. We have received the message of Your Holiness, No. 129 of 11 April 2002…(and)…were very troubled by the great number of bitter reproaches and unjust accusations that you formulate therein.

Canon 28: Yesterday and Today

By: Fr. John H Erickson. The announced title of this paper was “Chalcedon Canon 28: Yesterday and Today.” If time permitted, no doubt it would make sense to proceed in chronological fashion, from “yesterday”…

The Decline of the Patriarchate of Constantinople

By: St. John Maximovitch, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco. An excerpt from a report made by Archbishop John of Shanghai…in 1938…(that)…explains how the Ecumenical Patriarchate has expanded its jurisdiction beyond its canonical boundaries to cover the whole inhabited world.

Canon 28 of the 4th Ecumenical Council – Relevant Or Irrelevant Today?

Metropolitan Philip Saliba. Of all the canons dealing with Church authority and jurisdiction, there is probably none more controversial and debated in inter-Orthodox circles today than Canon 28 of the Fourth Ecumenical Council, held in the city of Chalcedon in the year 451.