Gheorghe Anghel

Patriarch Daniel: „The Missionary Work Of Saints Peter And Paul The Apostles Is A Model For All The Christians Who Witness The Love Of God For Us”

On 29 June 2016, the feast of Saints Peter and Paul the Apostles, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. His Grace Timotei, Assistant Bishop to the Archdiocese of Bucharest, concelebrated. His Beatitude delivered the sermon in which he emphasised the common virtues…

Jun 29, 2016Gheorghe Anghel

The Mission of the Orthodox Church in Today’s World (Final document)

The contribution of the Orthodox Church in realizing peace, justice, freedom, fraternity and love between peoples, and in the removal of racial and other discriminations. For God so loved the world that he gave his Only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life (Jn 3:16). The Church of Christ…

Jun 27, 2016Gheorghe Anghel

The Sacrament of Marriage and its Impediments (Final document)

I.On Orthodox Marriage The institution of the family is threatened today by such phenomena as secularization and moral relativism. The Orthodox Church maintains, as her fundamental and indisputable teaching, that marriage is sacred. The freely entered union of man and woman is an indispensable precondition for marriage. In the Orthodox Church, marriage is considered to…

Jun 27, 2016Gheorghe Anghel

The Orthodox Diaspora (Final document)

The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church concerned itself with the matter of the canonical organization of the Orthodox Diaspora. Therefore, the respective documents were discussed concerning the Orthodox Diaspora and the Rules of Operation of Episcopal Assemblies in the Diaspora, which were submitted by the Fourth Pre-Conciliar Pan-Orthodox Conference (Chambésy, 2009), and…

Jun 27, 2016Gheorghe Anghel

Autonomy and the Means by Which it is Proclaimed (Final document)

The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church concerned itself with the matter of Autonomy and the Means by Which it is Proclaimed.  Therefore, the respective document, which was submitted by the Fifth Pre-Conciliar Pan-Orthodox Conference (Chambésy, October 10-17, 2009) was discussed and was approved with some minor amendments as follows: The questions of…

Jun 27, 2016Gheorghe Anghel

Relations of the Orthodox Church with the rest of the Christian World (Final document)

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 the promotion of Christian unity in the world today. The Orthodox Church founds the unity of the Church on the fact of her establishment by our Lord…

Jun 27, 2016Gheorghe Anghel

The Importance of Fasting and its Observance Today (Final document)

Official Documents of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church: The Importance of Fasting and Its Observance Today   Fasting is a divine commandment (Gen 2:16-17). According to Basil the Great, fasting is as old as humanity itself; it was prescribed in paradise (On Fasting, 1, 3. PG 31, 168A). It is a great…

Jun 27, 2016Gheorghe Anghel

Message of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church

To the Orthodox people and to all people of good will To God, “the Father of mercies and all comfort,” we address a hymn of thanksgiving and praise for having enabled us to gather during the week of Pentecost (18-26 June 2016) on Crete, where the Apostle Paul and his disciple Titus preached the Gospel…

Jun 26, 2016Gheorghe Anghel

Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland: Address at the Opening Session of the Holy and Great Council

 Your All-Holiness, Your Holinesses, Eminences, Excellences, Reverend Brothers Priests, Brothers and Sisters participants of the Holy and Great Council, God the Almighty, One in the Holy Trinity, has blessed us to gather today, after long hours of work and many preparations, at this beautiful island of sunny Greece – Crete in order to begin, by…

Jun 20, 2016Gheorghe Anghel

Opening Address of His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Inaugural Session of the Holy and Great Council

 (June 20, 2016) Once, tongues were confused for daring to build a tower; now, tongues are infused with the glory of divine knowledge. There, God condemned the impious for their sin; here, Christ enlightened the fishermen with the Spirit. Then, discord was created for the sake of punishment; today, concord is established for the salvation…

Jun 20, 2016Gheorghe Anghel

Homily of His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Divine Liturgy – Metropolitan Church of St. Minas in Heraklion

Homily by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Chairman of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church at the Concelebration of the Divine Liturgy in the Metropolitan Church of St. Minas in Heraklion, Crete With Their Beatitudes the Primates of the Holy Orthodox Churches (Sunday of Pentecost, June 19, 2016) Your Beatitudes, Holy Brother Primates of…

Jun 19, 2016Gheorghe Anghel