Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (Crete 2016)

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church council event in Eastern Orthodoxy pan-Orthodox council

The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (Crete 2016) was a landmark pan-Orthodox gathering of bishops convened in Crete to address contemporary theological, ecclesial, and pastoral issues facing the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Council of Crete	1

Statements (59)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	church council ⓘ event in Eastern Orthodoxy ⓘ pan-Orthodox council ⓘ
aim	to address contemporary theological issues ⓘ to address ecclesial issues ⓘ to address pastoral issues ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (Crete 2016) ⓘ surface form: Council of Crete Holy and Great Council ⓘ
characterization	landmark pan-Orthodox gathering ⓘ
city	Kolymvari ⓘ
confession	Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ surface form: Eastern Orthodox Church
convokedBy	Patriarchate of Constantinople ⓘ surface form: Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
country	Greece ⓘ
documentAdopted	Autonomy and the Means by Which it is Proclaimed ⓘ Encyclical of the Holy and Great Council ⓘ Message of the Holy and Great Council ⓘ Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian World ⓘ The Importance of Fasting and its Observance Today ⓘ The Mission of the Orthodox Church in Today’s World ⓘ The Orthodox Diaspora ⓘ The Sacrament of Marriage and its Impediments ⓘ
endDate	2016-06-26 ⓘ
focus	contemporary challenges facing the Orthodox Church ⓘ unity of the Orthodox Church in the modern world ⓘ
historicalSignificance	first pan-Orthodox council convened in many centuries ⓘ
language	English ⓘ French ⓘ Greek ⓘ Russian ⓘ other modern languages ⓘ
location	Crete ⓘ
nonParticipatingChurch	Antiochian Orthodox Church ⓘ Bulgarian Orthodox Church ⓘ Georgian Orthodox Church ⓘ Russian Orthodox Church ⓘ
participantsType	bishops ⓘ primates of autocephalous Orthodox Churches ⓘ
participatingBody	Orthodox Church of Albania ⓘ surface form: Albanian Orthodox Church Orthodox Church of Alexandria ⓘ surface form: Church of Alexandria Orthodox Church of Cyprus ⓘ surface form: Church of Cyprus Greek Orthodox Church ⓘ surface form: Church of Greece Orthodox Church of Jerusalem ⓘ surface form: Church of Jerusalem Polish Orthodox Church ⓘ surface form: Church of Poland Romanian Orthodox Church ⓘ surface form: Church of Romania Serbian Orthodox Church ⓘ surface form: Church of Serbia Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia ⓘ surface form: Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church Patriarchate of Constantinople ⓘ surface form: Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
preConciliarMeetingsLocation	Chambésy, Switzerland ⓘ
preparationPeriod	over 50 years of pre-conciliar preparation ⓘ
presidedOverBy	Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople ⓘ surface form: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
religion	Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ surface form: Eastern Orthodoxy
startDate	2016-06-19 ⓘ
topic	Orthodox diaspora ⓘ autonomy and the means by which it is proclaimed ⓘ importance of fasting and its observance today ⓘ mission of the Orthodox Church in the contemporary world ⓘ relations of the Orthodox Church with the rest of the Christian world ⓘ sacrament of marriage and its impediments ⓘ
venue	Orthodox Academy of Crete ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (Crete 2016) → alsoKnownAs → Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (Crete 2016) ⓘ

this entity surface form: Council of Crete

Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople → associatedEvent → Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (Crete 2016) ⓘ