Nat da Polis of AsiaNews reports from Paphos, 27 October: “The work of the first phase of meetings post Ravenna 2007, between Orthodox and Catholics for the unity of two churches concluded…
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Metropolitan John of Pergamon and HH Pope Benedict XVI Following the modest but solid progress to the renewed Orthodox-Catholic dialogue at Ravenna in 2007, the Joint Commission for the Theological Dialogue has…
Catholic Culture reports, 5 November 2009: Abandoning the diplomatic language typical of ecumenical pronouncements, the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation, chaired by Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans and Greek Orthodox Metropolitan…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
The Vatican Information Service reports, 15 September 2009: Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, president of the Department for External Church Affairs of the Patriarchate of Moscow, is due to visit Rome from 15…
His Holiness was not a Russian, but an Estonian. He was born Alexis Michaelovitch Ridiger, on 23 February 1929 (Old Style), the son of a priest of the Estonian Orthodox Church, and…