William Dorich June 2014 BLOODY BAPTISMAL BATH IN THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN GLINA, Croatia, AUGUST 21, 1941 In a Serbian Orthodox church in Glina, 1,030 Serbians gathered for what they believed to be their forced conversion to Roman Catholicism—their only escape from the persecution of their Croatian neighbors and Roman Catholic clergy. After the…
1. Like our venerable predecessors Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras who met here in Jerusalem fifty years ago, we too, Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, were determined to meet in the Holy Land “where our common Redeemer, Christ our Lord, lived, taught, died, rose again, and ascended into Heaven, whence he sent the…
5/15/2014 HALKI SUMMIT II His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is hosting the second Halki Summit on “Theology, Ecology, and the Word.” Co-sponsored by Southern New Hampshire University, the summit will be held on the island of Halki from June 8-10, 2015. Continuing the legacy established by the Ecumenical Patriarchate for over twenty-five years, Halki Summit…
A Conference on Turkey and Modern Greece By His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (Boġaziçi University, May 9-10, 2014) Eminent Rector of this esteemed university, Prof. Gülay Barbarosoğlu, Distinguished symposium organizers and participants, Ladies and gentlemen, It is a particular pleasure and privilege to be asked to address you during this prestigious gathering of legal…
Keynote Address By His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew At The International Youth Forum (May 2, 2014) Beloved youth leaders and representatives, Christ is risen! “How happy human beings are when they are truly human.” (Maiandros) The love of the risen Christ has today assembled us in Constantinople, the sacred see of the Mother Church,…
Kochi: Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem-II, the supreme head of the Syrian Orthodox Church, arrived here on Saturday morning for a 11-day-long Apostolic visit to India.The Patriarch was accorded a warm welcome at the Nedumbassery airport by the Catholicos Baselios Thomas-I and metropolitans. The chief minister, ministers and other political and social leaders also welcomed the Aphrem….
Message of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches (Phanar, March 6-9, 2014) In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Through the grace of God, the Primates of the Most Holy Autocephalous Orthodox Churches, to the Orthodox faithful throughout the world, all of our Christian brothers and sisters…
“With expectant joy and an abiding sense of fraternity, we look forward, later this year in the Holy City of Jerusalem, to our commemorative encounter with our beloved brother in Christ, His Holiness Pope Francis. This fiftieth anniversary of the historic meeting between the late Pope Paul VI and our ever-memorable predecessor Patriarch Athenagoras is…
2/17/2014 OCP Delegation Holds Historic Meeting With Patriarch Ignatius Ephraim II at Puthencruz (Kerala, India) OCP News Service – 7/2/15 Report by Shijo Mathew (Focalize Photography) India/Kerala/ Puthencruz: The Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society delegation met with His Holiness Ignatius Ephraim II – Patriarch on the Apostolic See of St Peter in Antioch and All East at…
Phanar, January 13, 2014 Your Grace Archbishop Justin, Beloved Brother in Christ, and Honoured Guest of the Ecumenical Throne: In the year 1837 the English traveller Robert Curzon visited the Ecumenical Patriarch at the Phanar, and was greatly surprised to find that His All-Holiness had never heard of the Archbishop of Canterbury. ‘Archbishop of what?,’…