Saturday, June 20, 2020

Extraordinary Session: Patriarch Bartholomew to Switzerland

On 21 June 2020,His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will fly to Geneva, Switzerland for an Extraordinary Session of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.The session will be held at the Orthodox Centre of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Chambesy, Geneva.It will run from 23-26 June.
The agenda for the first day will be centered on the pastoral needs in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.All the Metropolitans of Europe will attend,in addition to the standing members of the Synod.*
Founded in June 1966, the Orthodox Centre is compromised of the Institute for Postgraduate Studies in Orthodox Theology;
 Library of the Orthodox Centre; the Museum of Christian Art of the Ecumenical Patriarchate; and the Church​ of St.Paul, Apostle to the Nations.*
Head of the Orthodox Centre is His Eminence Metropolitan Maximos of Switzerland.In the words of Patriarch Bartholomew at Metropolitan Maximos' enthronement in 2018, the Orthodox Centre is to be:
a dynamic place of dialogue,congresses, ecumenical meetings and other events in the service of unity, the promotion of Orthodoxy and Orthodox culture, through the emergence of the Centre's Museum.*

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