Tag: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
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Essays on Canon 28
Met. Philip’s recently posted essay on Constantinople’s misuse of Canon 28 got me hunting for more analysis. I’ve posted what I found (including one by St. John Maximovitch written in 1938) on the main site.
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The Nativity of Our Lord — 2008
Now then I pray you accept His Conception, and leap before Him; if not like John from the womb, yet like David, because of the resting of the Ark. Revere the enrolment on account of which thou wast written in heaven, and adore the Birth by which thou wast loosed from the chains of thy…
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Patriarch Bartholomew: Turkish Government Wants to Wipe Us Out
Asia News reports that the Turkish Foreign Ministry has issued a new report “which denigrates the ‘minority’ presence of the Greek Orthodox community in Turkey, and refuses to recognize the ‘ecumenical’ character of the ancient patriarchate.” It seems that the Turkish foreign ministry is trying to make the patriarchate “disappear,” continuing to call Bartholomew I…
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Message of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches
Leaders of the world’s Orthodox churches released a joint statement that touched on far ranging issues of interest to the Church, including the global economic crisis, the environment and the prospects for further pan-Orthodox consultations and a Holy and Great Council. The primates were gathered for the Oct. 10-12 Synaxis of the Heads of the…
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Orthodox Christian Patriarchs Celebrate Baptism of Russia
Orthodox Churches have long been involved in ecumenical projects, such as the World Council of Churches, and affirm the Lord’s mandate “that they all may be one” (John 17:21). Yet, I can’t help thinking at times that the Orthodox Churches might work a little harder at unity in their own house. For that reason, it…