Bulgarian Orthodox Leader Affirms Desire for Unity

Bishop Tichon at the Church of SS. Vincenzo e Anastasio by the Trevi Fountain in October On October 22, Zenit reported the recent visit of Bishop Tichon of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church…

“Christ is the Head of the Church, not the Pope”

Metropolitan John of Pergamon, Co-Chairman of the Joint Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox and the Catholics, at the 11th Plenary Session at Paphos, Cyprus. Left, Gennadios of Sassima. Right,…

Metropolitan John Zizioulas writes to the Metropolitans of Greece

In July we carried a report on the Metropolitans of the Orthodox Church of Greece, who had denounced the Ecumenical Patriarchate and its ‘heresy of ecumenism’, specifically the work of the dialogue…

Russian and Polish Hierarchs Strive for Reconciliation

Archbishop Henryk Muszyński of Gniezno and Archbishop Evgeniy, rector of the seminary at the Moscow Academy of Theology in January 2008 Our friends in SSJC Youngstown in the US have let us…

Visit of Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk to Pope Benedict

Robert Moynihan, writing September 21 2009 for Zenit, posed the question, Will the “Third Rome” Reunite With the “First Rome”? and concludes that the recent 5 day visit of Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev…

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Permanent Synod, London September 2009

In September 2009, London welcomed His Beatitude Lubomyr Husar, Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and his fellow hierarchs of the Permanent Synod. Among the Synod’s business were preparations for…

Middle East Synod – Pre-Synodal Council

The Melkite Patriarchal Secretariat announces: Two days of meetings were held, 20-21 September 2009, in the Headquarters of the Bishops’ Synod in Rome to prepare the Synod for the Middle East previously…