DAY 5 PANORAMA! Main Sessions – closing ceremony. The 5th and final day of the international congress is again based in the Alkis Argyriades Amphitheatre, located in the Central Building of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (30 Panepistimiou Str.). The day begins with the Thematic Round Table "Christian-Orthodox Church and geopoliticis today" covering the 1st morning session (09:00-10:30). Next comes the Thematic Framework "Pastoral theology and applications before contemporary challenges", which includes the modules: "Liturgy, Pastoral care and Theology today", "The Sacred Canons in the 21st century: The challenge of orthotomesis and the prospect of novelty", "The Orthodox ethos of sanctitude". Then we arrive at the conclusions and the closing ceremony of the entire academic event.

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DAY 5 – Thursday 28 November 2024

Location: Alkis Argyriades Amphitheatre

Thematic Round Table
Christian-Orthodox Church and geopolitics today.
9:00-10:30

Presiding: Dr. Dimitrios Moschos, Professor, Head of the Department of Theology, School of Theology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA).

Round Table Panelists:

• Νikolaos - Georgios Dendias, Minister of National Defence, Hellenic Republic.
• Evangelos Venizelos, former Deputy Prime Minister of Greece, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor of Constitutional Law at the School of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
• Emmanuil D. Karageorgoudis, Professor Dr., Dean of the School of Theology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA).
• His Eminence Emmanuel (Adamakis), Elder Metropolitan of Chalcedon.
• His Eminence Chrysostomos (Savvatos), Metropolitan of Messinia, Professor at the Department of Theology, School of Theology, NKUA.
• His Eminence Vasilios (Karayiannis), Metropolitan of Constantia - Ammochostos, Professor at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus, member of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches.
• His Eminence Gregorios (Papathomas), Metropolitan of Peristerion and Professor at the Department of Theology of the School of Theology, NKUA.
• Rev. Fr. Dr. John Chryssavgis, Professor at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology (HCHC), and Executive Director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at HCHC.
• Svetoslav Ribolov, Dr., Associate Professor at the Sofia University «St. Clement of Ochrid», Bulgaria.

Thematic Framework 8
Pastoral theology and application before contemporary challenges

Main Session 1 (morning)
10:30-14:00.

Presiding: Protopresbyter Fr. Dr. Vasileios Kaliakmanis, Professor at the Department of Theology, School of Theology, AUTH / Dr. Konstantinos Kornarakis, Professor at the Department of Theology, School of Theology, NKUA.

- Liturgy, Pastoral care and theology today

10:30-10:45 | Archimandrite Dr. Gregorios Ioannides, Associate Professor at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus.

The study of liturgical sources in the 21th century: Obligation, methodology, importance and significance. [in GR]

10:45-11:00 | Dr. Georgios Filias, Professor at the Department of Social Theology and the Study of Religion, School of Theology, NKUA., Professor at the "Institut d' études supérieures en théologie orthodoxe" at the Orthodox Centre of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Chambésy, Geneva, Switzerland, and member of the Committee for Liturgical Renewal of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece.

The request of liturgical renewal in the theology of the Orthodox Church (historico-theological approach and contemporary perspectives). [in GR]

11:00-11:15 | Dr. Photios Apostolos, Assistant Professor at the Department of Theology, School of Theology, NKUA.

The role of Orthodox liturgical education in a Europe that is evangelized and re-evangelized. The parish catechetical work and the contribution of academic theology to modern liturgical education. [in GR]

11:15-11:30 | His Eminence Maxim (Vasiljevic), Bishop of Los Angeles and Western America, Professor at the Holy Cross School of Theology in Boston, MA.

The Liturgical Lens:  An Existential Exploration of Dogmatics.

11:30-11:45 | Rev. Fr. Dr. Athanasios Gkikas, Protopresbyter, Professor at the Department of Social Theology and Christian Culture, and Dean of the School of Theology, AUTH.

Σύγχρονες ποιμαντικές προκλήσεις.

11:45-12:00 | Rev. Fr. Dr. Athanasios Melissaris, Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Throne, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Theology and the Study of Religion, School of Theology, NKUA.

Θεολογία και Ποιμαντική σήμερα.

- The Sacred Canons in the 21st century: The challenge of orthotomesis and the prospect of novelty

12:00-12:15 | Dr. Theodoros Giagkou, Professor at the Department of Social Theology and Christian Culture, School of Theology, AUTH.

 «Καταγγελῶ τοὺς τῶν νομοθεσιῶν τοὺς καιρούς μὴ διακρίνοντας». Η κανονική παράδοση και η προοπτική της.

12:15-12:30 | Dr. Eirini Christinaki, Professor at the Department of Social Theology and the Study of Religion, School of Theology, NKUA.

Το πρόβλημα της πλουραλιστικής θεμελίωσης των κανονικών κρίσεων. Προς μια συστηματική θεωρία κανονικού συλλογιστικού προτύπου.

12:30-12:45 | Dr. Dimitrios Nikolakakis, Professor at the Department of Social Theology and Christian Culture, School of Theology, AUTH.

Clergy’s secular professions according to the holy canons. [in GR]

12:45-13:00 | Discussion.

13:00-13:15 | Short Break.

- The Orthodox ethos of sanctitude

13:15-13:30 | Protopresbyter Fr. Dr. Vasileios Kaliakmanis, Professor at the Department of Theology, School of Theology, AUTH.

The ontological character of Christian ethics according to the professor Professor G. I. Mantzaridis. [in GR]

13:30-13:45 | Dr. Panayiotis Yfantis, Professor at the Department of Theology, School of Theology, AUTH.

The Orthodox canonizations in the 21st century and their anthropological witness. [in GR]

- The restructuring of the theological paradigm.   

13:45-14:00 | Dr. Thanasis Papathanasiou, Associate Professor at the Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens, Editor-in-Chief of the Synaxis journal.

Cleansing of the Temple (John 2:13-22 etc) and cleansing of the mission of the Church. [in GR]      

14:00-14:15 | Dr. Petros Vassiliadis, Professor Emeritus at the School of Theology, AUTH. President Emeritus of WOCATI and CEMES.

Η οικουμενική διάσταση της χριστιανικής θεολογίας. Δεδομένο, αλλά και ζητούμενο για το μέλλον.

14:15-14:30 | Discussion.                 

Conclusions and Closing Ceremony of the International Congress

15:00 | Congress Lunch offered by His Eminence Agathangelos (Chamarantides), Metropolitan of Fanarion and General Director of the Apostoliki Diakonia of the Church of Greece, at the Central Hall of the Theological Boarding House of the Apostoliki Diakonia.