Chapter 9: Official statements
OFFICIAL STATEMENTS 9.1. The Local Synod of Constantinople 1872 The Local Synod of Constantinople was caused by the unilateral establishment of a separate bishopric by the Bulgarian community of Constantinople. It was the first time in Church history that a separate diocese was established based on ethnic principles and not principles of Orthodoxy and territory... Read More
Chapter 9
OFFICIAL STATEMENTS 9.1. The Local Synod of Constantinople 1872 The Local Synod of Constantinople was caused by the unilateral establishment of a separate bishopric by the Bulgarian community of Constantinople. It was the first time in Church history that a separate diocese was established based on ethnic principles and not principles of Orthodoxy and territory... Read More
Chapter 10: Essays and Texts
ESSAYS AND TEXTS Address to the Conference on Peace and Tolerance By His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholemeos, Istanbul, Turkey, February 8th, 1994 Exorcising War By Metropolitan George of Mount Lebanon "May peace and justice once more reign in the Balkans" An interview with Archbishop Anastasios of Albania (published in with the daily Zri i Popullit... Read More
Chapter 10
ESSAYS AND TEXTS Address to the Conference on Peace and Tolerance By His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholemeos, Istanbul, Turkey, February 8th, 1994 Exorcising War By Metropolitan George of Mount Lebanon "May peace and justice once more reign in the Balkans" An interview with Archbishop Anastasios of Albania (published in with the daily Zri i Popullit... Read More
Exorcising War
By Metropolitan George of Mount Lebanon Metropolitan George, of the Patriarchate of Antioch, lives in Beirut, Lebanon. The text is abridged from Sourozh, magazine of the Russian Patriarchal Diocese of Sourozh, Great Britain. The translation from the French is by Elisabeth Koutassoff. What is most tragic about violence is its absurdity. Whoever has known the... Read More
Peace and Tolerance
Address to the Conference on Peace and Tolerance By His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholemeos, Istanbul, Turkey, February 8th, 1994 Greetings to all of our brothers and sisters from around the world who have come together for this very timely Conference on Peace and Tolerance. Although we will focus our remarks on problems in Central Asia... Read More
Peace and Justice
"May peace and justice once more reign in the Balkans" An interview with Archbishop Anastasios of Albania (published in with the daily Zri i Popullit (The Voice of the People), Tirana, May 1999) How has the Orthodox Church of Albania reacted to the Kosovo crisis? Since last year, to be exact 13th of March 1999,... Read More
After the Kosovo crisis
Implications for the Churches By Bishop Irenaeus (Bulovic) of Backa Report to the Inter-Christian Conference "Europe after the Kosovo Crisies: Implications for the Churches" in Oslo, November 15-16, 1999 (extracts) Esteemed and beloved Fathers, brothers and sisters in the Lord, ... However I might proceed to speak, I shall speak with sincere love towards my... Read More
The Orthodox Church and Peace
Some Reflections By Olivier Clément The spiritual and eschatological meaning that Scripture and Christ Himself give to the word "peace" characterizes the Orthodox Church as it does all Christian communities, although she is perhaps more wary than others of secularizing reinterpretations. The Biblical shalom which the Septuagint translates as eirene indicates the gift, the coming,... Read More
The Teaching on Peace in the Fathers
By Fr. Stanley S. Harakas The following essay will appear as chapter 6 of Fr. Stanley Harakas' forthcoming book, Wholeness of Faith and Life: Orthodox Christian Ethics, in Part One, "Patristic Ethics." The publisher is Holy Cross Orthodox Press. Originally published in "Un Regard Orthodoxe sur la Paix", Chambésy, Geneva: Editions du Centre Orthodoxe du... Read More