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Communique of The 10th Academic Consultation Between Judaism and Orthodox Christianity Jerusalem, December 5-7, 2017
The 10th Academic Consultation between Orthodox Christianity and Judaism on “The Significance of Jerusalem in the Two Faith Traditions” took place from December 5-7, 2017, co-sponsored by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations (IJCIC). His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I presided at this year’s proceedings.…
Continue ReadingPeriod of great hardships
The period of great sufferings for the Patriarchate of Jerusalem lasted over a millennium despite the goodwill which the pillager of Jerusalem, Omar Ibn Al-Hattab, displayed to the Christians and their Patriarch, saint Sophronios. Caliph Omar by personal decree (ahtiname) recognized the Patriarch of “the imperial nation” (namely the Greeks),…
Continue ReadingADDRESS by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Doctorate Honoris Causa Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, December 6, 2017)
Your Eminences and Excellencies, Distinguished Faculty and Students of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is indeed honoring us by conferring upon our humble person a Doctorate Honoris Causa, which we accept wholeheartedly and gratefully. We consider this gesture a tribute paid to…
Continue ReadingADDRESS by His-All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew “JERUSALEM IN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY” Ecumenical Patriarchate-IJCIC: Celebrating 40 Years of Dialogue (Jerusalem, December 5, 2017)
Your Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem, Eminences, Excellencies, Distinguished participants, Dear friends, It is an honor to address this historic conference in which we celebrate forty years of dialogue between Orthodoxy and Judaism. We congratulate His Eminence Metropolitan Emmanuel of France, representing our Ecumenical Patriarchate, and Rabbi David Rosen, representing…
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The Byzantine Liturgy and The Jews
More than 4 decades on, Jewish dialogue with Orthodox Christians still fragile
ATHENS, Greece (JTA) — For two days, 38 leading Jewish and Orthodox Christian clerics and scholars sat in a hotel outside the Greek capital for a rare dialogue on relations between the two ancient faiths. The talks, held last month, were only the eighth round since formal interfaith dialogue between…
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