Tag: russian

Moscow and Constantinople Orthodox Patriarchs meet

Asia News reports, 7 July 2009: For his first foreign trip since his election Kyrill, Patriarch of Moscow, picked Constantinople. His visit was dominated by a desire among Orthodox to consolidate the…

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…

Ukrainian Catholic University

On Tuesday, the Ukrainian Embassy to London at Holland Park hosted a reception to celebrate and promote the achievements of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, the only Catholic university institute of…

Journey begins towards convening of grand Pan-Orthodox Synod

From AsiaNews, 12 March 2009, by Nat Da Polis With the sending of letters of invitation to all the heads of the Orthodox Churches for the two preparatory meetings for the grand…

Return of Church of St Nicholas, Bari, to the Orthodox Church

MESSAGE FROM POPE BENEDICT XVI – Vatican Information Service The Russian Orthodox church of St. Nicholas in the Italian city of Bari was returned to the custody of the Patriarchate of Moscow…