Nov. 9 Program Here to Examine Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue Since Vatican II
St. Thomas Newsroom
October 29, 2015
Two experts on the topic will discuss “From Mutual Excommunications to Growing Communion: Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue 50 Years After Vatican II” at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 9, in the auditorium of O’Shaughnessy Educational Center on the St. Paul campus of the University of St. Thomas.
The experts are the Rev. Dr. John Chryssavgis, a Greek Orthodox theologian and archdeacon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and Monsignor Paul McPartlan, a professor of systematic theology and ecumenism at Catholic University of America.
Their discussion, free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by St. Thomas’ Institute for Catholicism and Citizenship, Theology Department, Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy Dr. Paul Gavryluk, and College of Arts and Sciences. More information can be found here.
Dr. Massimo Faggioli, director of the institute, said Chryssavgis and McPartlan will talk about the ecumenical relations between Catholics and Orthodox at 50 years from the lifting of the excommunications between the two churches in 1965. “The development of the relations between Catholics and Orthodox is part of a larger picture of ecumenism in contemporary Christianity and of our globalized world,” he said.
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