Halki Summit IV
Halki Summit IV, taking place on January 26-28, 2021 at 8:00-9:30 PM EST, will focus on the implications and lessons of COVID-19 in relation to climate change.
A recent Faith Matters blog, written by Archdeacon John Chryssavgis, shares that “for His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Covid-19 has taught all of us the costly lesson of listening to and learning from one another, of “loving our neighbor as ourselves” so that the world may have life in abundance. In this sense, the pandemic has further reminded us that the world is much larger than our individual concerns and ambitions, much larger than our church confessions and faith communities, and much larger than any political leader or national interest.”
Your Excellencies / Eminences,
At this moment, we are gathered here in prayer to give thanks to our Triune God for this second anniversary of the Unification Sobor, which took place on the 15th of December 2018, and the achievement of this historical event is brought to mind. Guided by the Holy Spirit, we managed, all together, to give a new perspective and to show the unity of the local Orthodox Church two years ago. The creation of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine was a new beginning as it became the 15th autocephalous Orthodox Church. The adoption of the Charter paved the way for the signing of the Tomos of Autocephaly, which was bestowed by His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on the day of the Epifany of our Lord, the 6th of January 2019.