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The Future Pan-Orthodox Council: To Be or Not to Be?

Paul L. Gavrilyuk

Over the last two years, the Patriarchate of Constantinople has repeatedly announced that the much anticipated Great and Holy Council will take place around the Feast of Pentecost in...

The President and the Patriarch

Paul L. Gavrilyuk

Vladimir Putin, who after a sham “referendum” completed his aggressive seizure of Crimea, denies he has plans to invade Eastern Ukraine. Meanwhile, he is increasing the number of troops...

The Orthodox Renaissance

Paul L. Gavrilyuk

At the beginning of the twentieth century, those Westerners who knew about the Orthodox Church tended to think it exotic and theologically and culturally irrelevant. Orthodox theology was very...