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| | Athenagoras I (Spyrou) of Constantinople - OrthodoxWiki |
 | | Athenagoras assumed his new position on February 24, 1931, he was faced with the task of bringing unity and harmony to a diocese that was racked with dissension between Royalists and Venizelists who had virtually divided the country into independent dioceses. | | | As patriarch, he was actively involved with the World Council of Churches and improving relations with the Bishop of Rome. | | | Athenagoras to the position of Archbishop of North and South America as the best person to bring harmony to the American diocese. |
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http://orthodoxwiki.org/Athenagoras_I_(Spyrou)_of_Constantinople
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| | Athenagoras (Peckstadt) of Sinope - OrthodoxWiki |
| | On the May 13, 2003, he was unanimously elected by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople as auxiliary bishop to the Metropolitan of Belgium with the ancient title of Bishop of Sinope, and was consecrated on Sunday, June 22, 2003, in the Orthodox cathedral in Brussels. | | | In November of 1989 he was ordained to the diaconate by Metropolitan Bartholomew of Philadelphia (presently the Ecumenical Patriarch), who also gave him the name of Athenagoras in honor of the great Patriarch Athenagoras I. | | | In the same year, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate made him a collaborator of the newly established Liaison Office of the Orthodox Church to the European Union, located in Brussels. |
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http://orthodoxwiki.org/Athenagoras_(Peckstadt)_of_Sinope
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| | The Patriarchate of Constantinople is the spiritual center of the Orthodox Church. | | | The Patriarch of Constantinople is considered as the highest authority of the Orthodox Church. | | | Thus, today the Patriarchate, among other dialogical initatives, leads the theological dialogues in progress with the Ancient Oriental Churches, the Church of Rome, the Churches of the Anglican Communion, the Churches of the World Lutheran Federation, the Reformed Churches, as well as with the monotheistic religions of Judaism and Islam. |
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http://www.serfes.org/biography/patriach.htm
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| | CNS STORY: Pope, Orthodox patriarch pray together, pledge new push for dialogue |
| | The patriarch said the future of Christian unity should not be envisioned as an organizational or structural model, or as a "leveling" of various Christian traditions, but as a spiritual communion lived by all churches. | | | Patriarch Bartholomew said untiring efforts were needed to eliminate the remaining impediments to full unity, but he voiced the hope that such unity might be achieved "in the near future." His phrase drew sustained applause, although the patriarch added that it might turn out to be a "distant future" instead. | | | Patriarch Bartholomew said he felt both "joy and sadness" at the liturgy -- joy at being able to participate as an honored guest, but disappointment at the lack of full communion between their churches. |
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http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0403613.htm
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| | Patriarch Athenagoras - Prophet of Love |
| | Athenagoras, upon graduating from the Halki Theological School in Constantinople, was assigned Archdeacon to Archbishop Meletios of Athens, and in 1910, he was ordained a priest and appointed to the Secretariat of the Holy Synod of Greece. | | | Athenagoras the First, this giant of a prelate, a lover of mankind, a pioneer in inter-Orthodox co-operation and a most prominent spokesman on Christian unity, we are asked to direct our prayers and thoughts. | | | Athenagoras the First, father of us all, has gone home to God. |
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http://www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org/resources/hierarchs/constantinople/former/john_thermon_athenagoras.htm
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| | The History of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople |
| | Let us hope that the Ecumenical Patriarchate, guided by the present Patriarch Demetrios I and by all future successors of St. Andrew the first-called Apostle, may continue in perpetuity to exercise in Constantinople its hallowed, traditional leadership over the Orthodox faithful of the world. | | | Yet relations between the Church of Greece and the Patriarch remained close, much closer in fact than between the patriarchate and any of the many other ("national") branches of the Orthodox Church. | | | At a solemn ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica, the patriarchs of East and West together recited, in Greek, the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of the Church as originally expressed without the filioque. |
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http://www.patriarchate.org/book/Fifth_Phase_modern_period.html
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| | A Reply to the "Sorrowful Epistle" |
| | Many pronouncements and actions of Patriarch Athenagoras as well as Archbishop Iakovos, having provoked serious controversies among the Orthodox, are equally open to scrutiny by the Episcopate of the Church Universal. | | | That this is the meaning of the "Epistle" is obvious from its explicit denial to recognize Patriarch Alexis as the head of the Russian Church. | | | No patriarch, no archbishop, no bishop is infallible, all are, accountable to the Church and primarily to its Episcopate. |
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http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/schmem_azkoul.aspx
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| | Patriarch Athenagoras |
| | One of the consequences of John XXIII's famous gesture of throwing open the windows of the Vatican was the recovery of charity and reopening of communication between the Roman communion and the great Churches of the East embraced under the general title of Orthodoxy after nearly a thousand years of total estrangement. | | | It was the Patriarch's wish to establish a regular program of exchange between the Mother Church. | | | Today, that smiling, fresh-faced youngster is the venerable, bearded occupant of the See of Constantinople, Patriarch Bartholomew I. On a warm September morning, after a day or two of welcome and orientation by the chaplain to Her Britannic Majesty's Consulate, the flamboyant and immensely kind Father Carel Piper, I made my way through. |
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http://home.nyc.rr.com/demojr/ATHENAG.HTM
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| | Ecumentical Patriarch's Visit to the Holy Father - 2004 |
| | Patriarch Bartholomew I and Pope John Paul II Welcome Address to Bartholomew I - Pope John Paul II On 29 June, in the Vatican's Clementine Hall, the Holy Father welcomed the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I on the Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul. | | | On 29 June, His Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I delivered this Reflection in to the faithful gathered in St Peter's Square during the concelebrated Mass for the Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul, at which the Holy Father presided. | | | On July 1, Pope John Paul II and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople signed a Common Declaration during the course of their meeting in the Holy Father's Private Library, pledging their continued efforts toward reunion of Orthodox and Catholic Churches. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/JP2BA1IN.HTM
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| | How disappointed Athenagoras would no doubt be to see the very spirit of Christian unity which he so dramatically initiated and so passionately advocated, still struggling to overcome barriers of religious bigotry in his own church. | | | In his response, Pope Paul praised Athenagoras for having reached out to Pope John XXIII before he died, and went on to say that all Christians worthy of the name should be determined to overcome disunity. | | | As we approach the millenium, the best example that Orthodox Christians can set in the face of our church's misguided leadership is to raise our children to be comfortable with, and respectful of, these two great branches of the very same tree. |
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http://members.aol.com/zpi/greekscatholics.htm
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| | The East Tennessee Catholic |
| | The pope and patriarch signed a document in the pope’s private library at the Vatican July 1, stating that members of the Catholic and Orthodox churches should join in a common witness of the faith against terrorism, religious intolerance, and attacks against human life. | | | The patriarch poured holy oil on the new altar, consecrating it along with other new Byzantine elements in the church. | | | Earlier in the day the patriarch inaugurated a church for Orthodox liturgical use in Rome, which had been presented as a gift by the pope. |
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http://www.etcatholic.com/july11/pope.htm
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| | Abbot Boniface on Patriarch |
| | Greece threatened to break from Constantinople if Athenagoras went through with his plan, and it was serious--"The gloves were off." In spite of this absurd refusal, the Patriarch meant to go on, and not make the whole Church a victim of unrelenting hatred and highly unchristian unforgiveness. | | | This is why he constantly lived with the great tensions of his time, including those with the Turkish government and with several Orthodox Churches, especially those of Greece and Russia, both of which gave him the right vision of the essentials and accidentals, as well as the sense of urgency of union with Rome. | | | In the Holy Land, at a prayer meeting, I met the wife of a diplomat who regularly received Metropolitan Nikodim Of Leningrad (as it was called then), the *Auszenminister* of the Russian Orthodox Church. |
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http://praiseofglory.com/abbotboniface.htm
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| | HTC: Reception of Persons into the Orthodox Church - Appendices |
| | The Russian Church Abroad did not recognize Patriarch Athenagoras’ act, feeling that the patriarch was obliged to do something like this only with the consent of all the Orthodox Churches because the matter of the schism between the Eastern and Western Churches concerns all the Orthodox Churches. | | | The senior cardinal read, on the pope’s behalf, an epistle sent by the pope to Patriarch Athenagoras in which the Pope expresses his regret that the Church of Constantinople was offended by the Papal legates. | | | Preceded by the religious procession the relic was carried into the cathedral where Archbishop Athenagoras, head of the Hellenic Church along with the whole Greek episcopate and numerous clergy, celebrated a Divine Liturgy. |
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http://www.holy-trinity.org/ecclesiology/pogodin-reception/reception-appendices.html
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| | Constantinople by Metropolitan Stephanos of Tallinn |
| | (* *): The Patriarch of Constantinople received the first time the ecclesiastical title of "Ecumenical Patriarch" in the 6th century "the reason is that Constantinople exerts a spiritual and administrative direct jurisdiction on all the ecclesiastical territories" within her geo-ecclesiastics limits which are founded on historico-canonical basis. | | | ‘The Ecumenical Patriarch is the first among the equals only of all the Episcopate which belongs to the Orthodox Church; he does not possess an administrative capacity as it is the case of the Head of the Church of West. | | | Now that the prestigious relics of our Holy Fathers John Chrysostom and Gregory the Theologian rest again in the place which was their patriarchal see, it is good us to remember that only Christ is perfect and that the only Truth for the Church is Christ. |
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| | The Greek Schism and Apostolic Succession |
| | This was the separation of the Eastern Church from the Western Church because of the power assumed by Photius about the middle of the ninth century, whereby he became patriarch of Constantinople and refused to accept the authority of the papacy in the West. | | | The Church in Russia separated from the patriarch of Constantinople in the sixteenth century, only to become a state church under the despotic czar Peter the Great, who became its head in 1721. | | | Most significant in improving relationships with the Orthodox churches (as the separated Eastern churches are now known) was the mutual nullification of the excommunications between the East and the West when Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras met three times before Athenagoras died in 1972. |
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http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/world/wh0064.html
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| | Patriarch Bartholomew |
| | New Patriarch was invite on 1992 to Fanar of all heads of local orthodox church, so that local church was enter nearer relations. | | | is All Holiness Patriarch BARTHOLOMEW was born 29.02.1940 in the village of Aghioi Theodoroi on the Aegean island of Imvros (Aegean Sea,Turkey), to Archontonis family (christened Demetrios). | | | is All Holiness BARTHOLOMEW I, Archbishop Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch is the 270th successor to the Apostle Andrew and spiritual leader of 300 millions Orthodox Christians worldwide. |
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http://www.orthodox.bialystok.pl/en/wizyta1.htm
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| | THE ORTHODOX CHURCH FROM 1965 TO 1990 |
| | Patriarch Athenagoras himself has been quoted as speaking of the coming of the ‘Third Age of the Holy Spirit’ – a clearly chiliastic idea which has its chief recent champion in N. Berdyaev, and can be traced back directly to Joachim of Fiore, and indirectly to the Montanists. | | | According to the deal eventually agreed upon, the patriarchate was to declare the Metropolia to be the autocephalous Orthodox Church of America (OCA) in exchange for the Japanese parishes of the Metropolia coming within the jurisdiction of the patriarchate. | | | And yet in March Patriarch Athenagoras had said that Orthodox could not (yet) receive “sacramental grace from a priest who is not himself Orthodox”. |
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http://www.romanitas.ru/eng/1965-1990.htm
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| | Latest additions Liturgy - 250320006 |
| | I greet Your Beatitude Patriarch Torkom, and all the Archbishops and Bishops of the Churches and Ecclesial Communities present. | | | It is in response to that prayer of the Lord that we are together here, all followers of the one Lord despite our sad divisions, and all conscious that his will obliges us, and the Churches and Ecclesial Communities we represent, to walk the path of reconciliation and peace. | | | It is a source of great joy to know that the Heads of Christian communities in the Holy City of Jerusalem meet frequently to deal with matters of common interest to the faithful. |
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http://www.christusrex.org/www1/ofm/pope/50/56/250320006.html
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| | Constantinople Versus Athens: Moscow With New York |
| | As the Patriarchate of Constantinople appears to be isolated, there are some who foresee the moral leadership of the worldwide Orthodox Church passing to Moscow. | | | This led to a schism between the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Russian Church and it also concerned extending the Patriarch's jurisdiction to new areas. | | | For now Patriarch Bartholomew risks isolating himself from the Orthodox world, including most of his own clergy and people in the diaspora, whose origins are in Greece. |
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| | Andrew Damick -- On the Dangers of Convertitis |
| | It looked rather like the "spiritual leader of world Orthodoxy" (as the Ecumenical Patriarch is so often called by the media) was selling out the Church and her faith, embracing a union which the Church had rejected as heretical and based on a unity which disregarded the Orthodox Christian faith. | | | The Pope and the absent Patriarch were commemorated in the prayers, and the decrees of the Union of Florence were read out. | | | We further know that Patriarch Athenagoras lifted the anathemas against the heresies of the Roman Catholic Church in 1965. |
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| | In Communion » News Reports |
| | At the same time, the Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople elevated the Church in Korea to a separate Metropolis and the bishop to a Metropolitan. | | | Bartholomew’s visit marked the anniversary of the meeting in 1964 of Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I, the first such meeting after centuries of bitter separation between the church in Rome and Orthodox churches. | | | Pope John Paul expressed regret for the crusaders’ plundering of Constantinople — now Istanbul &; in 1204 saying it was one of the “painful facts of the past” that had aggravated relations between the Catholic and Orthodox churches. |
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http://www.incommunion.org/articles/issue-34/news-34
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| | Aleksy II Service |
| | Patriarch: For You are a merciful and loving God, and to You we give the glory: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, now and always and forever and ever. | | | Patriarch: Through the prayers of our Holy Fathers, O Christ our God, have mercy on us and save us. | | | Clergy: Further we pray for His All Holiness, Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch, for His Holiness Aleksy, for His Beatitude Metropolitan Theodosius, for His Grace Bishop Anthony, for His Grace Bishop Tikhon. |
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| | The Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute was founded as a Pan-Orthodox center at the Graduate Theological Union. | | | This is the first accredited graduate program in Orthodox Christian theology in the United States not offered by an Orthodox seminary. | | | Arthur Holder, Dean of the Graduate Theological Union stated, "I am delighted that the Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute and the Graduate Theological Union will cooperate to offer an MA in Orthodox Christian Studies. |
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http://www.goarch.org/en/news/NewsDetail.asp?printit=yes&id=1013
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| | NEWS AND EVENTS |
| | Co-celebrating with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will be members of the Eparchial Synod of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese, members of SCOBA (Standing Conference of Orthodox Bishops in the Americas) and the Patriarchal Hierarchs accompanying His All Holiness. | | | Born in Greece on March 25, 1886, he rose through the clerical ranks to become Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of North and South America in 1931 and was elected to the office of Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in November, 1948. | | | "Athenagoras, as an Archbishop in America and ultimately as Patriarch, cultivated a new era of recognition and prestige for the Orthodox Church on an international and ecumenical level. |
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| | ByzCath.org - News of the East |
| | When the first direct contacts between the new pope and Patriarch Athenagoras took place by letter, the official newspaper of the Ecumenical Patriarchate spoke of new relations between "sister churches," anticipating language to be adopted in due course by the Churches themselves. | | | In the presence of Patriarch and of Pope their deputies read decrees during which excommunications pronounced over nine centuries earlier, in 1054, were "erased from the memory and the midst of the Church" and consigned "to oblivion." (Op. | | | In this address he said, "Even though the Ecumenical Patriarchate is the first See in the Orthodox world, it does not compete with the other Churches nor with any other religions, because it considers all people to be the beloved children of God. |
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http://www.byzcath.org/news/2000/ByzCath20000414.html
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| | Open Letter of Metropolitan Philaret to Archbishop Iakovos |
| | According to that theory, the Orthodox Church is as guilty of divisiveness as the heretics and schismatics who separated themselves from the Church, and all these separated communities remain "branches" of the Church from which they fell away. | | | Orthodox ecclesiology has always been based on the understanding that there is only One Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, and that schismatics, heretics, and persons of other religions are outside of Her. | | | We are not writing these lines in order simply to reproach or offend Your Eminence or His Holiness Patriarch Athenagoras: not in the least, especially as we have no reason for personal animosity toward you or His Holiness. |
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| | The Standing Episcopal Conference (AUOCIA) - SEC - History and Apostolic Succession - The Didache |
| | Patriarch TIKHON and the Holy Synod of Moscow elected as bishop Abdulla Aftimios Ofiesh, a former monk who had been ordained a priest by the Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch. | | | On November 21, 1923 Archbishop THEOPHANIES (Noli) was consecrated Metropolitan of Durrazzo at St. George Cathedral in Korcha, Albania by Archbishop KRISTOFOR (Kissi) of Albania and Bishop HIEROTHEOS (Andon-Yaho), Bishop of Miletoupolis and Exarch of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople. | | | The authenticity of this letter was verified by the representative of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria at Athens, Greece by His Beatitude PARTHENIOS III, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, in a letter dated January 5, 1994. |
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http://www.ourchurch.com/view?pageID=26392
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| | Witness the encyclical* letter of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople in 1920 to “all the churches of Christ” for “closer intercourse and mutual cooperation”. | | | This is expressed in their fidelity to the apostolic faith as developed in the seven ecumenical councils* and the patristic tradition (see apostolic Tradition, apostolicity). | | | When he was able to send a new bishop to New York a few years later, the latter found that in the meantime all the mother churches of the Orthodox world had claimed their nationals and created their own jurisdictions. |
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http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/what/ecumenical/eo-e.html
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| | The Standing Episcopal Conference (AUOCIA) - SEC - Relations with CHURCH OF ROME |
| | Pope PAUL VI and Patriarch ATHENAGORAS I with his Synod realize that this gesture of justice and mutual pardon is not sufficient to end both old and more recent differences between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church. | | | Most of the world’s Orthodox Patriarchates and Churches, including the Church of Russia, had delegations on the commission. | | | The Ecumenical Patriarch tells +PAUL VI, "your march from Rome towards us is really the march of the Angel of peace and good, not only, as we are certain, towards us and the whole Holy Orthodox Church but also towards these great countries and even beyond. |
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http://www.ourchurch.com/view?pageID=198051
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| | Panayiotis Christou - Partakers of God - Foreword |
| | The fact that he always tried to deny that he was a theologian was due to his desire to mark the great distance between the scholastic and spiritual methods of theologizing. | | | Typed kindly for Myriobiblos by the Holy Monastery of Theomitor, Ilioupolis | | | A charming Nativity hymn (perhaps composed by Patriarch Germanos I of Constantinople), which is sung at the vespers of Christmas, [xxiii]portrays without rival all of creationâs participation in the great event of the divine Logosâ Incarnation through its offering: |
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| | End of the Great Schism + Pietro Mascagni |
| | It was on this date, December 7, 1965, that Roman Catholic Pope Paul VI and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lifted the 900-year-old mutual excommunications that led to the split of their two churches in 1054. | | | The declaration rescinded the mutual excommunications between the Roman see and the Patriarchate of Constantinople, commonly known as the Great Schism. | | | This is a laudable example of doctrinal enemies attempting to play nice with each other, in human terms, but it leaves one rather rude question (in supernatural terms): If the supposedly perfect Supreme Being was right in 1965, was he wrong in 1054 &; when both excommunication and faith were stronger? |
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| | Common Declaration of Pope Paul VI and the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras |
| | They recognize that the true dialogue of charity, which should be at the basis of all relations between themselves and between their Churches, must be rooted in total fidelity to the one Lord Jesus Christ and in mutual respect for each one's traditions. | | | The spirit which should inspire these efforts is one of loyalty to truth and of mutual understanding, with an effective desire to avoid the bitterness of the past and every kind of spiritual or intellectual domination. | | | The Roman Catholic Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate are ready to study concrete ways of solving pastoral problems, especially those connected with marriages between Catholics and Orthodox. |
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| | Catholic World News : Pope urges Patriarch to resume ecumenical talks |
| | Vatican, Jun. 29, 2004 (CWNews.com) - Meeting on June 29 with Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, the foremost prelate of the Orthodox world, Pope John Paul II (bio - news) underlined the importance of resuming a theological dialogue between the Catholic and Orthodox churches, which has been suspended for four years. | | | That meeting in 1964 was the first direct meeting between the Roman Pontiff and the Patriarch of Constantinople since the mutual excommunications that split the Christian world in 1054. | | | After his morning meeting with Patriarch Bartholomew, the Pope appeared in St. Peter's Square for a noon public audience, in recognition of the feast of Sts. |
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| | Catholic Online - Cathcom - Pope Urges 'Leap Forward' in Catholic-Orthodox Ties |
| | For his part, Patriarch Bartholomew I affirmed the need to reinforce dialogue between the two Churches, which fluctuates because of the accumulated difficulties given the long history of division, Vatican Radio reported. | | | Pope John Paul II embraces Greek Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I at the end of the celebration for the feast of Saint Peter and Paulus in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican | | | Convinced of the urgency, the Pontiff expressed the desire that the theological dialogue of the Catholic and Orthodox mixed commission "be reactivated as soon as possible." |
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| | Catholic World News : Orthodox prelate in Rome: easing tensions? |
| | For years, the Patriarchate of Constantinople has sent representatives to the Vatican to participate in celebrations on this feast day of the Rome diocese-- just as the Vatican has sent delegations to join the Orthodox patriarchs in celebrating their patronal feast of St. Andrew. | | | The Orthodox prelate will participate with Pope John Paul II (bio - news) in the celebration of the feast of Sts. | | | Before Rome loved London, had no use for the less powerful Dublin, and the same situation has developed here.The Vatican needs additional study on CAtholicism, the universal Church of Truth. |
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| | Vatican official says he expects November papal trip to Istanbul |
| | Patriarch Bartholomew, who holds a place of special honor among the world's Orthodox leaders, welcomed Pope Benedict's election and said it was a sign of hope for ecumenism. | | | Pope John Paul II and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, pray inside St. Peter's Basilica. | | | Needless to say, I am more than pleased and have sent them a wealth of information on the Maronite Church, our particular parish history, and the biographical backgrounds on our Maronite Patriarch, Bishop and pastor. |
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| | Vatican Information Service |
| | This will allow the faithful of the Greek-Orthodox archdiocese in Italy to have a significant and continuing presence close to the tomb of the Apostle Peter. All of this, we know, is a gift from God. | | | There is great need for these signs of communion, as well as for the words that accompany them and explain them which we have written in the joint declaration." | | | The hope kindled by that historical meeting has illuminated the path of these last decades," says the statement. |
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| | Briefing |
| | In this spirit of unity, 40 years after the historic embrace between Paul VI and Athenagoras I, Pope John Paul II received the present Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, on 29 June — the Feast of Sts Peter and Paul. | | | The Cardinal then marched out of the church, shook its dust from his feet, and left the city. | | | Despite nearly a millennium of division, a profound if incomplete communion still exists between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches, and the search for full unity was given a further impetus at the end of June when the Ecumenical Patriarch was received by the Pope |
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| | The ecumenical patriarch said that the unity of the Churches in not like that of a business or of States, "but is a spiritual search that aims at living together our spiritual communion with the person of Our Lord Jesus Christ. | | | The Nicene-Constantinople Creed was then recited in Greek according to the liturgical use of the Byzantine Churches. | | | The Pope recalled that today the Church celebrates the feast of the Apostles Peter and Paul: "the fisherman from Galilee who was the first to profess faith in Christ; the master and doctor who announced salvation to the people. |
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http://www.catholicradio.ca/news/arc5-2004.html
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| | Leader of Orthodox Christians Goes to Cuba - Havana Journal |
| | Cuba was explicitly atheist for about 25 years after Castro's revolution, but the collapse of the Soviet Bloc led the government to abandon official atheism and to openly, if warily, accept religious faith. | | | There are some 1,200 practicing Orthodox Christians in Cuba and the church hopes to bring another 500 back into the fold, especially immigrants from countries of the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe. | | | HAVANA - The spiritual leader of the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians will travel to Cuba next week at the invitation of President Fidel Castro to consecrate a cathedral, a regional church leader said Wednesday. |
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http://havanajournal.com/culture_comments/1226_0_3_0_C
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| | Catholic Leader Online |
| | Fr Gregorios Stergiou, who is pastor of the Greek Orthodox community in Rome, said the patriarch, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Churches, would arrive in Rome on June 29 and remain until July 2. | | | VATICAN CITY (CNS): Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople will meet with Pope John Paul II in late June and attend the papal Mass for the June 29 feast of Sts Peter and Paul, the Vatican said on May 6. | | | On July 1, the priest said, Patriarch Bartholomew would dedicate the newly remodelled Church of St Theodore on Rome's Palatine Hill. |
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http://www.catholicleader.com.au/prinfriendly.php?num=1864
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| | Seminarians For Life International - EASTERN ORTHODOXY AND CONTRACEPTION: CONTEMPORARY VERSUS TRADITIONAL VIEWS |
| | By way of example, consider the statements made by distinguished theologians of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople — the oldest and most respected of the Orthodox churches. | | | In support of Bishop Ware's 1963 expression of the position of the "Orthodox Church" comes no less a personage than the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople. | | | After reviewing the encyclical, the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras wrote to the Pope to assure him of the Orthodox Church's "total agreement" with the encyclical's contents: |
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http://www.hli.org/seminariansforlifeinternational/sem_for_life_eastern_orthodoxy.html
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| | Joint Statement of Pope and Ecumenical Patriarch: "We Have Continued the 'Dialogue of Charity" :: Ecumenical ... |
| | Today, we, their Successors, meet again together to commemorate worthily before God, in fidelity to the memory and the original intentions, that blessed meeting, now part of the history of the Church. | | | In the spirit of faith in Christ and of the reciprocal charity that unites us, we thank God for the gift of this our new meeting, which takes place on the feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, evidencing our firm resolve to continue on the path toward full communion between us in Christ. | | | Let us pray that the Lord give peace to the Church and the world and that he vivify with the wisdom of his Spirit our path toward full communion, "ut unum in Cristo simus." |
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http://www.aej.de/eyce/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=188&POSTNUKESID=3216ef90f191194ecc69879b360d393b
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| | The History of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople |
| | Because of the prevailingly religious temper of the age, this antagonism was most clearly expressed in the growing ecclesiastical rift between the two churches, in the rivalry between the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope of Rome. | | | In this period the popes at tempted to Latinize the Orthodox people there, a fact which led to the famous events of 1054, when the so-called "definitive schism" occurred between the churches of Rome and Constantinople. | | | The Churches differed over the dogma of the filioque, and in the liturgical question of the azyma -- that is, the use by the Orthodox of leavened bread in the Eucharist in contrast to the unleavened bread of the Roman Church. |
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http://www.patriarchate.org/book/Western_Hostility_Grows.html
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| | Angelus, 27 June 2004 |
| | While we prepare to welcome the Ecumenical Patriarch, I invite everyone to pray for the full unity of Christians, invoking the intercession of the Virgin Mary. | | | Many associations and ecclesial communities pay constant attention to fostering reciprocal knowledge and friendship among Christians of different denominations, so that they are growing ever closer in works of solidarity, justice and peace. | | | On that happy occasion I will have the joy of welcoming to the Vatican once again His Holiness Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. |
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http://www.pcf.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/angelus/2004/documents/hf_jp-ii_ang_20040627_en.html
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| | Patriarch Athenagoras - definition of Patriarch Athenagoras in Encyclopedia |
| | Wikisource has original text related to Patriarch Athenagoras. | | | Patriarch Athenagoras - definition of Patriarch Athenagoras in Encyclopedia | | | This was a significant step towards restoring full communion between Rome and Constantinople. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Patriarch_Athenagoras
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| | Common Declaration 2004 |
| | We, their Successors, are meeting today to commemorate fittingly before God that blessed encounter, now part of the history of the Church, faithfully recalling it and its original intentions. | | | After so many centuries of silence, they have now met with the desire to do the Lord's will and to proclaim the ancient truth of his Gospel, entrusted to the Church" (Common Declaration of Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I, Tomos Agapis, Vatican-Phanar, 1971, n. | | | Pope John Paul II and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople signed a Common Declaration during the course of their meeting in the Holy Father's Private Library on the morning of Thursday, 1 July. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/jp2bart1.htm
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| | Ecumenical Patriarchate |
| | Message of His All Holiness, Patriarch Bartholomew, for the day of prayer for the protection of the Environment (01/09/2004). | | | Message of His All Holiness, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew,to the Annual Meeting of the Bishops-Friends of the Focolari Movement(Rome, November 2003). | | | Statement by His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew upon the falling asleep in the Lord of Pope John Paul II |
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http://www.ec-patr.gr/docdisplay.php?lang=en&cat=4
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| | Hellenic College Latest News |
| | Robert has authored the The Greek (Eastern Orthodox Church (1990), Patriarch Dimitrios in the USA (1991), and IAKOVOS: The Making of An Archbishop (1996). | | | Brookline, MA—For almost four decades, Orthodox and Roman Catholic theologians in North America have been actively engaged in discussing important theological and pastoral issues common to both faith traditions. | | | Author of “Guidelines for Orthodox Christians in Ecumenical Relations,” he is a Founding Member of Orthodox Dialogues with Catholics, Anglicans, Evangelicals and Jews. |
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http://www.hellenic.hchc.edu/pages/news/prathenagoras.asp
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