By Dr Konstantinos Zormpas
The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, which took place from June 18 to 26, 2016 in Crete and in the locations of the Orthodox Academy of Crete (OAC), proclaimed first of all the unity and the catholicity of the Orthodox Church. In parallel to this it sent out a significant message to “all people of good will” about the value of the dialogue of the Church on key contemporary issues.
On the occasion of the 4 years anniversary of the conduct of this historical and ecclesiastical event, the OAC, in the difficult times we are going through and underlining the contribution of the teaching of the documents of the Council to face the pandemic of Covid-19, proceeded to organize a webinar on the subject of “Studying the documents of the Holy and Great Council: Reflections about the social crisis and the pandemic of Covid-19”.
The word of the Church – the Mother Church, from the Heart of the Reigning Town, from the town of the Hagia Sophia, the Great Church and the Chora Monastery – could not be absent. We would like to thank wholeheartedly His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew 1, spiritual protector of the Institution, for sending us spontaneously His message; a message with words of gratitude, a pedagogical, reinforcing word and a word of consolation.
The webinar also featured the following speakers: