Category: Orientale Lumen Conferences

Address of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the OL EuroEast III Conference

We offer glory and thanks to God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Trinity one in essence and undivided – for this blessed opportunity to warmly welcome all of you once again to our historic city of Constantinople. This is the spiritual center of an age and region which served as home to all of […]

Seventh Ecumenical Council: Nicaea II (787)

In order to provide some background material for the Orientale Lumen Conferences in 2010, with the help of Father Michael Hayduk, I prepared a summary of the first Seven Ecumenical Councils that I post here. SITE: Nicaea YEAR: A.D. 787 POPE: Hadrian I, 772 – 795 EMPERORS: Constantine VI, 780 – 797 and Empress Irene […]

Sixth Ecumenical Council: Constantinople III (680-681)

In order to provide some background material for the Orientale Lumen Conferences in 2010, with the help of Father Michael Hayduk, I prepared a summary of the first Seven Ecumenical Councils that I post here. SITE: Constantinople YEARS: A.D. 680 – 681 POPES: St. Agatho, 678 – 681, and St. Leo II, 682 – 683 […]

Fifth Ecumenical Council: Constantinople II (553)

In order to provide some background material for the Orientale Lumen Conferences in 2010, with the help of Father Michael Hayduk, I prepared a summary of the first Seven Ecumenical Councils that I post here. SITE: Constantinople YEAR: A.D. 553 POPE: Vigilius, 537 – 555 EMPEROR: Justinian I, 527 – 565 ACTION: Effectively called by […]

Fourth Ecumenical Council: Chalcedon (451)

In order to provide some background material for the Orientale Lumen Conferences in 2010, with the help of Father Michael Hayduk, I prepared a summary of the first Seven Ecumenical Councils that I post here. SITE: Chalcedon, (north of Constatinople) YEAR: A.D. 451 POPE: St. Leo I, the Great, 440 – 461 EMPEROR: Marcian, 450 […]

Third Ecumenical Council: Ephesus (431)

In order to provide some background material for the Orientale Lumen Conferences in 2010, with the help of Father Michael Hayduk, I prepared a summary of the first Seven Ecumenical Councils that I post here. SITE: Ephesus (S. of Smyrna in SW Asia Minor). YEAR: A.D. 431 POPE: St. Celestine I, 423 – 432 EMPEROR: […]