Tag: roman catholic

Turkey “to allow Christian worship at birthplace of St Paul”

Turkey’s government has agreed to extend indefinitely permission for Christian worship at an historic church in Tarsus, the birthplace of St Paul, says the head of the country’s Roman Catholic bishops’ conference.…

Orthodox Patriarch wants Euro-body with Catholics, Protestants

The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I has called for the creation of a churches’ umbrella body in Europe to include Roman Catholics alongside Anglicans, Orthodox and Protestants. “It is only by engaging in…

Greek clergy denounce ‘heresy of ecumenism’

A group of Orthodox clergy in Greece, led by three senior archbishops, have published a manifesto pledging to resist all ecumenical ties with Roman Catholics and Protestants. “The only way our communion…

Interconfessional Seminar on “The Common Date of Easter”

  On the 15th of May, 2009, the Institute of Ecumenical Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University organized an international, inter-confessional seminar on the topic,“The Common Date of Easter is Possible: The…

Pamela Sandilands, Dowager Lady Torpichen

Fr John Salter writes: Pamela Torphichen was a devout Roman Catholic and a keen ecumenist long before it became acceptable or fashionable to be so. It was while at school at the…

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The Society is delighted to welcome the appointment of Bishop Hlib Lonchyna MSU, curial bishop of the Majorarchbishopric of Kyiv-Halyc, Ukraine, as Apostolic Exarch for the Ukrainian faithful of the Byzantine rite…

Pope Benedict visits the Armenian Patriarch Torkom of Jerusalem

The Vatican Information Service reports, 15 May 2009: This morning the Holy Father visited the Armenian Patriarchal Apostolic Church of Jerusalem, where he was greeted by Patriarch Torkom Manoukian. The Pope assured…

Pope Benedict visits the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem

The Holy Father’s address to Patriarch Theophilus: Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, It is with profound gratitude and joy that I make this visit to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem;…