An International Conference will be held in Volos on September 27-28, 2016, organized by the Volos Academy for Theological Studies in cooperation with the historic Catholic Academy of Bavaria. In the conference, which is part of an official visit of staff and friends of the Catholic Academy to the city of Volos and their acquaintance with Orthodoxy and Greece, a comparative approach of the relations between Greece and Germany will be provided. The scope of the conference is not limited to a theological topic. It rather intends to touch a wide range of issues, which refer to both the history and cultural relationship between Germans -and particularly
On August, 7-9, 2016, an international workshop, organized by the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict of Arizona State University was successfully held in London on the general theme: “Religion and Global Citizenship”. According to the rationale of the workshop, we live in a time when forces of globalization are in tension with various nationalistic movements and
Aikaterini Pekridou, who has been a member of Volos Academy since 2008, has been appointed Dialogue Secretary of the Conference of European Churches (CEC). She will start working for the Brussels based ecumenical organisation from autumn 2016. CEC has about 120 member Churches from the Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican, Old Catholic and Free Church
On July, 10, 2016, a reception of a six-member official delegation from the Russian city of Rostov took place during the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of St. Nicholas, in Volos (Greece). During the reception His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatius of Demetrias and Almyros, welcomed the deputy Mayor of Rostov Mr. Sergey Kuznetsov, the Vice Rector of the Ecclesiastical Seminar of Rostov Fr. Grigory Gridnev, and four prominent members of the municipality of Rostov, while he warmly spoke about their
On June, 23-25, 2016, an International Conference, organized by the Orthodox Christian Studies Center of the Fordham University was successfully held on the general theme: “Traditions, Secularization, Fundamentalism”. The 2016 Patterson Conference was a featured event of the Fordham University Dodrabicentennial Celebration. Conference support provided by the Patterson Triennial Conference Endowment and the Ganister Orthodox Foundation Fund at the First Community Foundation Partnership of
1. The Faculty of Theology of the Ukrainian Catholic University in collaboration with the European Society for Catholic Theology and the Institute of Ecumenical Studies, organized an International meeting on March 4, 2016, on the topic: “Churches in Peace Building: Ecumenical Engagement for Peace and Reconciliation”. Among the speakers were: Rev. Dr. Cyril Hovorun, Sankt Ignatios Academy, Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden (“The Challenges that the Ukrainian Church face”); and the Deacon
In the opening ceremony of the proceedings there was a greeting by the Director of the Department Mr. Konstantinos Karagounis, who welcomed the participants and dedicated the congress to his two late associates of the Department, Christos Kotopoulos and Konstantinos Saitis.
Also, there was a greeting by the president of the Chanters' Association of the Holy Diocese of Demetrias “Saint John the Koukouzelis”, Efstathios Grammenos, while His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatius of Demetrias and Almyros