20/05/2024 14:15 - 16:30

HALL: LA PIRA - ROOM 4

Proponent: Hjälm M., Hovorun C.

Chair: Hjälm M., Hovorun C.

Speaker: Grdzelidze T., Hjälm M., Hovorun C., Ohrvall D.

Global Orthodoxy faces a new wave of crises, which is quite high. This wave became visible when four local churches decided to boycott the Pan-Orthodox council of 2016. Other developments accelerating the crisis soon followed: granting autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in 2019, the outright Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2022 and the war in Ethiopia. Speakers are invited to contribute their reflections to this open panel focusing on these developments and their implications for intra-Orthodox and inter-Christian relations. Contributions which include suggestions for solutions to these ongoing crises are particularly welcome.