Dan Koski, Jerusalem Ecclesiastical Mission, Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia From Golgotha to Gethsemane St. Elizabeth Feodorovna and the Russian Orthodox Church in the Holy Land Wednesday 25th September, 12.00 c.t. Institute for Ecumenical Research/Lucian Blaga University Mitropoliei 30, 550179 Sibiu In this lecture, the life story of Saint Elizabeth…
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At the international conference „Byzantine Liturgy and the Jews” the new issue of the Review of Ecumenical Studies was launched. This issue was dedicated to the topic of the jewish-Christian Dialogue from the perspective of the Orthdox Church. Also these scholarly contributions are a result of the research project PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0699.…
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The JOCD project was presented at the 8th International Musicological Conference, entitled „Musical and Cultural Osmoses in the Balkans”, which was organized in Bucharest on 2-6th September 2019. Dr. Alexandru Ioniță presented the paper „Chanting the Jews in Romanian Byzantine Chant Books: Socio-Political Conditioning during the 19th and 20th Century”.…
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You can read about our research project in the short description published in Review of Ecumenical Studies 2, 2019:https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/ress/11/2/article-p301.xml
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When talking about Orthodox Christianity in the context of the Jewish-Christian dialogue, a stark disproportion between East and West becomes visible. More precisely, there is a sharp contrast between Orthodoxy and other Christian confessions in what regards the commitment to, and the interest in, embarking on such a dialogue. In…
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The oldest Synagogue in Romania was reopened in Iasi, at the beginning of December, after many years of restoration made under the coordination of the Romanian Ministry of Culture and National Patrimony. The building having a double role, as a tourist attraction and a place of worship, exists since the…
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The Temples and Synagogues in Romania: Jewish, national and universal heritage photo exhibition was opened in Timisoara, on Thursday, November 15th. The event was organized by The Metropolitanate of Banat in partnership with the local Jewish Community, the Timis County Council and the Timis County Public Library „Sorin Titel” and…
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The International Conference “The Byzantine Liturgy and the Jews” will be held from 9-11 July 2019. We are glad to announce that many scholars have already confirmed their participation. A list of the names and topics to be debated is available here:
Continue ReadingThe 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 ReadingThe 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),…
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