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Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World
27 June 2016
The Orthodox Church, as the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, in her profound ecclesiastical self-consciousness, believes unflinchingly that she occupies a central place in the matter of ...
Encyclical of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church
27 June 2016
In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit
With a hymn of thanksgiving, we praise and worship God in Trinity, who has enabled us to gather together during the days of the feast o...
The main reason for ecclesiastical journalism, the quest, its starting-points and the methodological consequences of this quest.
27 June 2016
Ionel Ungureanu, Lecturer professor (moral and social theology) at the faculty of Theology in University of Craiova...
Grace will gradually come to you
Saint Porfyrios Kavsolkalyvitis
27 June 2016
Grace will visit you gradually. You’ll enter into joy. You’ll begin to live in peace, and then you’ll become stronger by God’s grace. You won’t get angry. You won’t lose your temper, you won’t get ups...
The Gospel Reading at the Marriage Service: A hermeneutical approach.
Ioannis Karavidopoulos, Professor Emeritus of New Testament Hermeneutics, A. U. Th.
27 June 2016
The Gospel extract which is read at the sacrament of marriage is John 2, 1-11 (the miracle of the transformation of water into wine). Why did the Church choose this particular excerpt, when the Gospel...
The Church without Saints isn’t the Church – 1
Archimandrite Chrysostomos Papadakis of the Ecumenical Throne
27 June 2016
Archimandrite Hrysostomos Papadakis
I would like to express my warmest thanks to Archimandrite Ieronymos Nikolopoulos, Chief Secretary to the Holy Synod and Parish Priest of this church, for his kin...
The Holy and Great Council concludes its work
26 June 2016
June 26, 2016
The Holy and Great Council held its concluding session on the 25th of June 2016, at the Orthodox Academy of Crete. The work of the Council had commenced with the Patriarchal Conce...
They’re always quarrelling
Saint Paisios the Athonite
26 June 2016
When people quarrel among themselves, they all say they’re right but they appropriate more of the right than they’ve any right to, which is why they’re forever quarrelling.
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The Sacrament of Marriage and its Impediments
25 June 2016
SYNAXIS OF THE PRIMATES OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCHES
Chambésy, 21-28 January 2016
THE SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE AND ITS IMPEDIMENTS
DECISION
** This document was not signed by the Patriarchates of Anti...