{"id":224145,"date":"2019-01-09T23:30:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=224145"},"modified":"2019-01-09T23:30:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T21:30:44","slug":"1st-iota-conference-starts-in-iasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/1st-iota-conference-starts-in-iasi\/","title":{"rendered":"1st IOTA Conference starts in Ia\u0219i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Inaugural Conference of the International Orthodox Theological Association began on Wednesday, January 9, 2019, with a Te Deum Service officiated by the Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bukovina at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Ia\u0219i.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The overarching theme of the Inaugural Conference is Pan-Orthodox Unity and Conciliarity.<\/p>\n<p>The Opening Ceremony took place at the National Theatre of Iasi, starting 18:30.<\/p>\n<p>On this occasion, the message of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, was read out by His Eminence Teofan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201eIn contemporary society, characterised by increased secularisation, i.e. through relativisation of religious and moral values, a renewal of present Orthodox theology is more and more necessary, through a presentation of the deep connection between the truths of faith, liturgical life and the mystic-ascetic experience of the Church\u201d, Patriarch Daniel wrote in the message.<\/p>\n<p>The Keynote speaker of the evening was Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia.<\/p>\n<p>The Conference will conclude on Saturday evening, January 12.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full <a href=\"https:\/\/iota-web.org\/conference-program\/\">program<\/a> of the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy\u00a0of Robert Moldoveanu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inaugural Conference of the International Orthodox Theological Association began on Wednesday, January 9, 2019, with a Te Deum Service officiated by the Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bukovina at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Ia\u0219i. The overarching theme of the Inaugural Conference is Pan-Orthodox Unity and Conciliarity. The Opening Ceremony took place at the National&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":224127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dioceses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}