Annual Meeting 2004

Theme: The Laity

One Calling in Christ: The Laity in the Orthodox Church

In order to stimulate further discussion, proceedings from the 2004 conference were published by InterOrthodox Press, a service of the Patriarch Athenegoras Orthodox Institute.

June 3-5, 2004
Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology

Program

Thursday June 3

Session I

2:00 p.m. Patristic Understandings of the Laity and Holiness - Helen Creticos Theodoropoulos

3:15 Break

3:30 Teaching Laity: St. John Chrysostom as a Resource for Contemporary Religious Education - Ann Bezzerides

5:00 Vespers - Holy Cross Chapel
Dinner - Condakes Refectory

7:30 Reception - The Archbishop Iakovos Museum

Friday June 4

8:00 a.m. Liturgy - Holy Cross Chapel
Breakfast - Condakes Refectory

10:30 Panel on Current Events in Orthodoxy

12:00 p.m. Lunch - Condakes Refectory

Session II

2:00 p.m. Priesthoods and Pieties: Orthodoxy and the Post-Reformation Laos - A. Gregg Roeber

3:15 Break

3:30 Unintended Consequences: A Preliminary Analysis of the Revolt Against Archbishop Spyridon in the Greek Archdiocese of America, 1997-99 - Andrew Walsh

5:00 Vespers - Holy Cross Chapel
Dinner - Condakes Refectory

7:30 The Georges Florovsky Lecture

Robert Haddad: The Legacy of Athens in Medieval Greek Christian, Islamic, and Latin Christian Theology

9:00 Reception

Saturday June 5

8:00 a.m. Matins - Holy Cross Chapel
Breakfast - Condakes Refectory

Session III

9:00 a.m. Canonical Perspectives on the Position of the Laity - Patrick Viscuso

10:15 Break

10:30 Liturgical Perspectives on the Laity - John Klentos

12:00 p.m. Lunch - Condakes Refectory

1:00 Business Meeting

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