We are pleased to announce our almost final list of plenary speakers for the upcoming Orientale Lumen Conferences this coming June. The theme of two OL conferences planned will be “The Councils of the Church” and the speakers will be:

Orientale Lumen XIV North
Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
June 7-10, 2010

• Archbishop Cyril Vasil’, SJ, Secretary of the Congregation for Eastern Churches in the Vatican, and former rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome
• Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun, Director of Religious Education for the Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow Patriarchate
• Archimandrite Robert Taft, SJ, Professor Emeritus of Liturgy of the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, and prolific author and theologian of the Byzantine Liturgy
• Father John Behr, Dean of Saint Vladimir’s Seminary, Crestwood, NY

Orientale Lumen XIV East
Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, Washington, DC
June 21-24, 2010

• Metropolitan Jonah, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, Washington, DC
• Archbishop Donald Wuerl, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Washington, DC
• Archbishop Cyril Vasil’, SJ, Secretary of the Congregation for Eastern Churches in the Vatican, and former rector of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome
• Archimandrite Robert Taft, SJ, Professor Emeritus of Liturgy of the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, and prolific author and theologian of the Byzantine Liturgy
• Father Thomas FitzGerald, Dean of Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Seminary, Boston, MA

More speakers will be scheduled and further agenda details will be posted on the conference website under Future Conferences at www.olconference.com. Online registration can also done on the website.

Previous conference photos and quotes can be found there, with streaming video clips from plenaries and liturgies at www.oltv.tv.