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THE FORTHCOMING COUNCIL OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH:
UNDERSTANDING THE CHALLENGES
International colloquium organised by
St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute, Paris
The Centre for Ecumenical Research of the Catholic University of Leuven
in partnership with
the Orthodox theological review Contacts
and the Collège des Bernardins (Paris)
THURSDAY 18 OCTOBER
OPENING SESSION (9.30-12.00)
Chair: Michel Stavrou, Institut Saint-Serge
9.30
9.40
9.50
10.00
10.30
11.00
11.30
12.00
Opening of the colloquium by Fr. Nicolas Ozoline, dean of the Institut Saint-Serge
Welcome address by Metropolitan Emmanuel of France of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, President of the
Assembly of Orthodox bishops in France
Overview of the programme by Michel Stavrou, Institut Saint-Serge
Noël Ruffieux, Revue Contacts, Preparation and Reception of the Council
Coffee break
Peter De Mey, KU Leuven, The Role of the Observers during the Second Vatican Council
Discussion with the audience
Lunch at the Institut Saint-Serge
SESSION 1 : THE COMMON LITURGICAL CALENDAR (14.00-16.45)
Chair: Antoine Arjakovsky, Collège des Bernardins
14.00 Pierre Sollogoub, Orthodox Fellowship in Western Europe, Why a Reform of the Established Liturgical
Calendar and of the Easter Date is Necessary?
14.30 Fr. Vladimir Khoulap, Theological Academy Saint-Petersburg, Pastoral Problems of a Reform of the
Liturgical Calendar in Russia
15.00 Observer: Fr. Thomas Pott, Monastery of Chevetogne, The Problem of a Common Calendar: Do We Need to
Reform our Liturgical Calendar or Our Understanding of the Time of Salvation?
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Discussion with the audience
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17.00 Short papers in parallel sessions :
Conference Room
(President : Peter De Mey, KU Leuven)
Refectory
(President : Michel Sollogoub, Revue Contacts)
17.00-17.30
17.00-17.30
Stefan Barbu, The Sacraments of Initiation in the
Orthodox-Roman Catholic Dialogue
and the Issue of Ecclesiality:
A Eucharistic Ecclesiology Perspective
Myroslava Rap, Social Teaching of the
Traditional Orthodox Churches in Ukraine:
Ethics of Civil Responsibility as a Sign of
Social Rapprochement.
17.30-18.00
17.30-18.00
Michal Pliszka, L’approche des Eglises grecques
et russe concernant la reconnaissance du baptême
des non-orthodoxes
Tim Noble, The Orthodox Art of
Conversation: The Contribution of
Berdyaev’s Ecumenical Encounters
in Paris.
18.00 Orthodox Vespers at the Institut Saint-Serge
FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER
SESSION 2: AUTOCEPHALY, AUTONOMY AND DIPTYCHS (9.00-12.00)
Chair: Goran Sekulovski, Institut Saint-Serge
9.00 Fr. John Erickson, Saint-Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, New York, Autocephaly and
Autonomy
9.30 Fr. Grigorios D. Papathomas, Theological faculty of Athens and Institut Saint-Serge, The Canonical
Question of Ecclesial Diptychs : Ecclesial-Political Challenges and Ecclesial-Canonical Taxis
10.00 Observer : Fr. Joseph Famerée, Université Catholique de Louvain, Autocephaly. Reflections of a Roman
Catholic
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Discussion with the audience
12.00 Lunch at the Institut Saint-Serge
SESSION 3: THE FUTURE OF THE ORTHODOX ‘DIASPORA’(14.00-16.45)
Chair: Peter De Mey, Catholic University of Leuven
14.00 Fr. Emmanuel Clapsis, Holy Cross Hellenic College, Boston, The American Religious Landscape and the
Orthodox Churches
14.30 Antoine Arjakovsky, Collège des Bernardins, Paris : The Issue of the “Diaspora” at the Future PanOrthodox Council : Pragmatic Proposals
15.00 Observer : Rev. Ivana Noble, Charles University, Prague, The Future of the Orthodox “Diaspora”: An
Observer’s Point of View
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Discussion with the audience
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17.00 Short papers in parallel sessions:
Conference Room
Refectory
(President : André Lossky, Institut Saint-Serge) (President : Goran Sekulovski, Institut Saint-Serge)
17.00-17.30
17.00-17.30
Frederick Lauritzen, Canonomachia and Autocephalia :
The Byzantine Discussion on Ecclesiastical Autonomy
in the Tenth Century.
Michel Dymyd, La diaspora
comme facteur de renouveau
pour le Grand Concile.
17.30-18.00
17.30-18.00
Christophe D’Aloisio, Concile et relations
entre Églises locales
chez le P. Nicolas Afanassieff
Victor Yudin, Solution or Confusion ?
Chalcedon’s Canon 28.
18.00 Free time to move to the Collège des Bernardins (20 rue de Poissy, 75005 Paris ; M° Maubert Mutualité or
Cardinal Lemoine) and to take supper in town
EVENING PROGRAMME AT THE COLLEGE DES BERNARDINS
‘Petit auditorium’ (20.00-22.00)
The Challenges of the Great Pan-Orthodox Council
Moderator : Antoine Arjakovsky, Co-director SLP, Collège des Bernardins
Mgr Jérôme Beau, President of the Collège des Bernardins
Carol Saba, Spokesperson of the Assembly of Orthodox Bishops of France
Georges Nahas, Vice President of the University of Balamand, Lebanon
P. Nicolas Cernokrak, Professor at the Institut Saint-Serge
Br. Enzo Bianchi, Founder and Prior of the Monastic Community of Bose
SATURDAY 20 OCTOBER
SESSION 4: RELATIONS OF ORTHODOX CHURCHES WITH THE OTHER CHRISTIAN
CHURCHES AND WITH THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT (9.00-12.00)
Chair: André Lossky, Institut Saint-Serge
9.00
9.30
10.00
10.30
11.00
12.00
Tamara Grdzelidze, Faith and Order, WCC, Ecumenical Relations of the Orthodox Churches: Systematic
and Contextual Reflection
Michel Stavrou, Institut Saint-Serge, Paris, Ecumenical Relations and the Recognition of the Baptism of the
Other Churches
Observer: Barbara Hallensleben, University of Fribourg, Sister Churches: A Hermeneutical Principle in the
Relations between Christian Churches ad intra and ad extra
Coffee break
Discussion with the audience
Lunch at the Institut Saint-Serge
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SESSION 5: ORTHODOX CONTRIBUTIONS TO ETHICAL QUESTIONS AND THE
IMPORTANCE OF FASTING (14.00-17.00)
Chair: Michel Stavrou, Institut Saint-Serge
14.00 Radu Preda, Faculty for Orthodox Theology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Orthodoxy as Confronted with Ethical
Questions: A Socio-Theological Perspective
14.30 Athanasios Papathanassiou, Theological Review Synaxi, Athènes, Christian Fasting in Postmodern Society:
Considering the Criteria
15.00 Observer : Anne Marie Reijnen, Institut Supérieur d’Etudes, Œcuméniques, Institut Catholique, Paris,
Fasting – Some Protestant Remarks. “Not by bread alone” : An Argument for the Contemporary Value of
Christian Fasting
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Discussion with the audience
17.00 Concluding reflections by Pantelis Kalaïtzidis, Theological academy of Volos
17.30 Word of thanks
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