With the participation of the Director of the Department of the Research of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Monuments
On October 4-7, 2017, an International Academic Symposium in honor of Prof. Emeritus of Byzantine Archeology, Dr. Georgios Velenis (University of Thessaloniki) was successfully held in Thessaloniki at the Ancient Agora amphitheatre. This was a place to which the honored professor was inseparably linked, as he was the head of a research program for the study of the restoration, formation and promotion of this archaeological site.
The great success of the symposium was demonstrated by the participation of 130 speakers from Greece and abroad, who presented original papers on Byzantine and post-Byzantine history and
With the participation of academic associates of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies
On October 11-15, 2017 the 4th conference of the Network of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for Pastoral Health Care was successfully held in the island of Rhodes (Greece) on the general theme “Rekindling Hope — Finding hope in the difficulties of life.” The Ecumenical Patriarchate holds a conference every three years (2008, 2011, 2014), organized by the Patriarchal Network. These conferences give the
International Consultation
“Eastern Orthodoxy and Inter-Religious Encounter in a Secular Age”
September 15-17, 2017
Thessalia Conference Center, Volos, Greece
On September 15-17, 2017, the Volos Academy for Theological Studies (Greece) in co-operation with the Department of Theology and Religion of the University of Exeter (United Kingdom) organize an International Consultation on the general theme: “Eastern Orthodoxy and Inter-Religious Encounter in a Secular Age.” The proposed
On September 3-10, a Summer School on “Ibadism. Understanding diversity within Islam” was successfully held in Volos, Greece, by the Department of Inter-religious Studies of Volos Academy for Theological Studies, in cooperation with the School of Theology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the University of Naples “L’Orientale,” and the College of Islamic Law of Oman The Summer School explored the fundamentals of Islam and Ibadism in its historical, juridical, literary, religious and
On September 21-24, 2017, Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Director of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies, accompanied by his wife, Mrs. Maria Nanou, theologian and byzantinologist visited Lebanon.
On Tuesday morning, September 21, 2017, Dr. Kalaitzidis had the opportunity to visit Metropolitan of Mount-Lebanon Georges Khodr at the headquarters of his Diocese in the small town of Brumana on the outskirts of Beirut. Dr. Kalaitzidis conveyed to His Eminence the warmest greetings of Metropolitan
In Athens With the participation of the Director
of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies
On October 6-8, 2017, the first Panhellenic meeting of the theological association Kairos was successfully held in Athens (in the Greek-French School of Ursulines) on the general theme: “Orthodox Church and identities in contemporary world.” Following the current debate about the character of the curriculum of the class of religion in the public educational system, the main purpose of the meeting was
International Consultation on “Eastern Orthodoxy and Inter-religious encounter in a secular age”
On September 15-17, an international consultation organized by the Volos Academy for Theological Studies (Greece) in co-operation with the Department of Theology and Religion of the University of Exeter (United Kingdom), was successfully held in Volos on the general theme “Eastern Orthodoxy and Inter-religious encounter in a secular age.”
After the welcoming greetings by Metropolitan Ignatius