Live Webcast for OL XV

New for OL XV, we’ll have an Online LIVE Webcast.  For the first time, the OL Conference will be broadcast live through an online video webcast over the internet. The Opening and Closing Sessions, along with all Plenary Lectures and Panel Discussions, will be viewable online during the conference for just $50 per person. Viewers […]

Speakers and Moderator for OL Conference Finalized

I have finally been able to confirm our plenary speakers and the moderator for Orientale Lumen XV scheduled for June 20-23, 2011 in Washington, DC on the theme of “Rome and the Communion of Churches:  Bishop, Patriarchate or Pope?” The plenary speakers will be: Metropolitan Jonah (Orthodox) Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, Washington, […]

Plans for Orientale Lumen XV

We have already started making plans for the Orientale Lumen Conference for next year. Since it will be our fifteenth anniversary, we are hopeful to have a great turnout. In discussions over the summer, Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) from Oxford, one of the founders of the OL Conferences in 1997 and frequent speaker over the years, […]

Introduction at OL EuroEast by Bishop John Michael Botean

I’ve had several requests to post the introductory remarks by Bishop John Michael Botean at the opening session of the Orientale Lumen EuroEast III Conference held in Constantinople on July 5-10, 2010.  In the presence of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia, Archbishop Cyril Vasil’ SJ from the Congregation of Oriental […]

Report on OL XIV in Washington

The report below was written by Eric Sammons, an attendee at the OL XIV East Conference in Washington on June 21-24, 2010. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I attended the 14th annual Orientale Lumen conference, held at the John Paul II cultural center in Washington, D.C. This was my third year attending, and it was quite enjoyable and informative […]

The House that Jack Built

Father Justin Rose has written a great reflection on his experiences at the OL Conference in Constantinople.  Rather than write some else, I post his story here: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ “The house that Jack built…” was how His Grace, Bishop John Michael Botean described the Orientale Lumen movement at our recent OL Euro –East III opening session. […]