Holy and Great Council

The Inaugural Session of the Holy and Great Council

Jun 20, 2016Robert Nicolae

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

Pentecost Patriarchal Concelebration at St Menas Cathedral in Heraklion

Jun 19, 2016Robert Nicolae

Vesper of the Holy Spirit officiated by the Ecumenical Patriarch at St Titus Cathedral in Heraklion

Jun 19, 2016Robert Nicolae

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

His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: Official address at the arrival of the Primates of the Orthodox Autocephalous Churches – Holy Cathedral of the Holy Apostle Titus

Response by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Chairman of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, to His Eminence Archbishop Irenaios of Crete, President of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Church of Crete, on the Occasion of the Arrival of the Ecumenical Patriarch and Their Beatitudes the Primates of the Orthodox Autocephalous…

Jun 18, 2016Gheorghe Anghel

Official address of His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at the Reception from the Holy Cathedral Church of Saint Titus

Response by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Chairman of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church to the Honorable Mayor of Heraklion, Crete, Vasilios Lambrinos at the Reception of the Ecumenical Patriarch and Their Beatitudes the Primates of the Orthodox Autocephalous Churches at the Courtyard of the Holy Cathedral Church of Saint Titus…

Jun 18, 2016Gheorghe Anghel

Prayer and hospitality at the Metropolis of Kissamos and Selino, Crete

The participation in the Divine Liturgy of the delegations of the Orthodox Churches in the Holy and Great Council in Crete, at the metropolitan cathedral Annunciation of the Theotokos in Kissamos, followed on the eve of the Pentecost by the commemoration of the departed ones, especially those who worked for the preparation of the Holy…

Jun 18, 2016Iulian Dumitraşcu

The works of the small Synaxis of the Primates have begun. The Message of the Holy and Great Council will be addressed today

This morning, at 09.00 a.m., the Heads of Orthodox Churches arrived at the Monastery of Our Lady of Gonia, in Kolymbari, Crete, where they said a prayer in the opening of the small Synaxis, the last Sinaxis of the Primates previous to the Holy and Great Council. In this Synaxis participate the Primates and two…

Jun 17, 2016Aurelian Iftimiu

Metropolitan Nifon: The Holy and Great Synod is very important for the whole Orthodoxy and beyond

Metropolitan Nifon, Archbishop of Targoviste – Patriachate of Romania, spoke to Nikos Papachristou (amen.gr) about the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church. N.P.: Your Eminence, how important event is the Holy and Great Synod for the life of the Orthodox Church? Metropolitan Nifon: The Holy and Great Synod is very important for the…

Jun 16, 2016Gheorghe Anghel