Archive for tag: 1700th anniversary

Archive pour tag : 1700th anniversary

The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the Orthodox Church have issued a joint statement on the addition of the Filioque clause to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, a theological issue that has divided the Eastern and Western Church traditions for almost a thousand years.

The word ‘filioque’ (‘and the Son’ in English) to describe the procession of the Holy Spirit, was added by the Latin Church to the Creed centuries after its composition to counter Arianism but the Eastern Church has always protested this insertion.

In a Common Statement of the Joint International Commission on Theological Dialogue between the LWF and the Orthodox Church, both partners “suggest that the translation of the Greek original (without the Filioque) be used in the hope that this will contribute to the healing of age-old divisions between our communities and enable us to confess together the faith of the Ecumenical Councils of Nicæa (325) and Constantinople (381).”
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Posted: July 30, 2024 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=14335
Categories: Dialogue, Lutheran World InformationIn this article: 1700th anniversary, filioque, Lutheran World Federation, Nicaea, Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, Orthodox
Transmis : 30 juil. 2024 • Lien permanente : ecumenism.net/?p=14335
Catégorie : Dialogue, Lutheran World InformationDans cet article : 1700th anniversary, filioque, Lutheran World Federation, Nicaea, Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, Orthodox

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is planning a year of activities in 2025 to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the first Ecumenical Council at Nicaea in 325, a key moment in the history of Christian faith and for the ecumenical journey today.

“The anniversary offers an opportunity to celebrate and reflect on the outpouring mission of God’s triune love and the implications this has for the common witness and service of the churches, it gives us the opportunity to ask afresh with others what Nicaea means for us today.” said WCC general secretary Rev. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay.

The first Ecumenical Council was a gathering of Christian bishops in Nicaea, now İznik in present-day Türkiye, as the first attempt to reach consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom.

“Then, as now, the call to unity was heard within the context of a troubled, unequal, and divided world,” recalled Pillay.
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Posted: July 6, 2023 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=13737
Categories: WCC NewsIn this article: 1700th anniversary, Nicaea, WCC, WCC Commission on Faith and Order
Transmis : 6 juil. 2023 • Lien permanente : ecumenism.net/?p=13737
Catégorie : WCC NewsDans cet article : 1700th anniversary, Nicaea, WCC, WCC Commission on Faith and Order

Pope Francis said Wednesday that the full restoration of communion among all Christians is “an urgent priority in today’s world.”

In a letter to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, the pope expressed gratitude that Catholic and Orthodox Christians are seeking “to achieve full communion that will enable us one day, in God’s time, to gather together at the same eucharistic table.”
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Posted: Dec. 1, 2022 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=12880
Categories: CNAIn this article: 1700th anniversary, Bartholomew I, Catholic, Date of Easter, Nicaea 2025, Orthodox, Pope Francis
Transmis : 1 déc. 2022 • Lien permanente : ecumenism.net/?p=12880
Catégorie : CNADans cet article : 1700th anniversary, Bartholomew I, Catholic, Date of Easter, Nicaea 2025, Orthodox, Pope Francis

On his return from Jerusalem, where he met with Pope Francis at the Holy Sepulchre, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, has revealed an important appointment for unity between Catholics and Orthodox: a gathering at Nicaea in 2025, where the first real ecumenical council of the undivided Church was celebrated.

Speaking exclusively with AsiaNews, Bartholomew says that together with Pope Francis “we agreed to leave as a legacy to ourselves and our successors a gathering in Nicaea in 2025, to celebrate together, after 17 centuries, the first truly ecumenical synod, where the Creed was first promulgated”. The Council of Nicaea (now Iznik, 130 km south-east of Istanbul), brought together more than 300 bishops from East and West in 325 and is considered the first true ecumenical council. It was there that the formula of the Creed was decided, similar to the one recited during the liturgy today, saying that Jesus “is consubstantial to the Father,” to counter the Arian ideology.
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Posted: May 29, 2014 • Permanent link: ecumenism.net/?p=7670
Categories: NewsIn this article: 1700th anniversary, Bartholomew I, Catholic, Nicaea 2025, Orthodox, Pope Francis, synods
Transmis : 29 mai 2014 • Lien permanente : ecumenism.net/?p=7670
Catégorie : NewsDans cet article : 1700th anniversary, Bartholomew I, Catholic, Nicaea 2025, Orthodox, Pope Francis, synods