VIDEO: Fr. Theodore Zisis on the Upcoming Great and Holy Council, Part 5

Protopresbyter Theodore Zisis

Parts 3 and 4

Source: YouTube

June 6, 2016

Fr. Theodoros Zisis is Emeritus Professor of Patrology and former Chair of the Department of Pastoral and Social Theology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In the video below Fr. Theodore, known as a staunch defender of traditional, patristic Orthodoxy, discusses the recent about-face of the Ecumenical Patriarchate with respect to the potential ecumenicity of the forthcoming Council. He demonstrates that until very recently the Ecumenical Patriarchate clearly held that the Great and Holy Council could potentially be an Ecumenical Council:

Part 6

Protopresbyter Theodore Zisis

Youtube

6/11/2016

See also
The Essential Problems with the Holy and Great Council The Essential Problems with the Holy and Great Council
Met. Hierotheos Vlachos The Essential Problems with the Holy and Great Council The Essential Problems with the Holy and Great Council
Met. Hierotheos Vlachos
Eventually, all of the dreams of the "Fathers" of this idea resulted in it becoming, not an Ecumenical Council, but a Holy and Great Council which is still unable to find its identity, tackling just six issues that are vague, untimely, without a clear cut goal, and some of which are detached from the tradition of the Fathers. Statement of the Press Service of the Diocese of Odessa Statement of the Press Service of the Diocese of Odessa Statement of the Press Service of the Diocese of Odessa Statement of the Press Service of the Diocese of Odessa
His Eminence Agafangel, Metropolitan of Odessa and Izmail, has refused to participate in the upcoming Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church. Statement of the Chancellery of the Bulgarian Holy Synod Concerning the Pan-Orthodox Council Statement of the Chancellery of the Bulgarian Holy Synod Concerning the Pan-Orthodox Council Statement of the Chancellery of the Bulgarian Holy Synod Concerning the Pan-Orthodox Council Statement of the Chancellery of the Bulgarian Holy Synod Concerning the Pan-Orthodox Council
The decision of the Holy Synod is categorical: the Bulgarian Orthodox Church will not participate in the Pan-Orthodox Council due to reasons already announced.
Comments
Anthony8/29/2016 3:15 pm
And so the Council wasn't ecumenical because according the Phanar the Church i.e. Christ's Body is divided - (as the western heterodox are excluded and excommunicated). Kyrie Eleison; And so the plot thickens. So the Phanar believes Christ's Body is divided. Well I suppose he did say that the Orthodox Church and Latin ''Church'' were two lungs. Bonkers.
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