| Our Churches intend to defend the principles of Christian morality in the public space and oppose to erroneous theological understanding of it. The Commission recommends to establish professional cooperation between our respective Church institutions in the future. The Russian Orthodox Church has a Synodal Commission on Bioethics, and there are also the appropriate specialists under the Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. As a first practical step, the Russian and Ethiopian sides will exchange their official Church documents on this topic. The mentioned documents shall be carefully studied, translated into Amharic and Russian, respectively, and published for the attention of our believers and a wider audience. In the future, it could also make a weighty contribution to the development of the official dialogue between the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Church families. 4) Exchange of experience in the media space The great success of our Bilateral Dialogue was the press-tour of the Russian secular and church media specialists headed by co-secretary of our Commission Rev. Hieromonk Stefan (Igumnov) to Ethiopia September, 27 – October, 4, 2019, during the Meskel (Holy Cross) Celebration. In addition to establishing professional contacts, a number of TV projects issued about the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, its history, traditions and modern life. All of them had a great success among the millions of Russian Orthodox believers. Our colleagues who made these exclusive documentary materials brilliantly reflected the fraternal spirit of the relationship between our peoples. Russian side express special thanks for accompanying the project to co-secretary from Ethiopian side Rev. Fr. Daniel Seifemichael, general director of Media Corporation of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Mr. Vladimir Legoyda, the Head of the Department for Church’s society and media relations of the Russian Orthodox Church. This cooperation in media seems to be a very promising field of cooperation. It should definitely be continued on a regular basis. |
| «Открой очи мои, и увижу чудеса закона Твоего. Странник я на земле; не скрывай от меня заповедей Твоих» (Псалтирь 118:18-19) Аннотация «Факультет ненужных вещей» — роман о жертве сталинских репрессий, где евангельский рассказ о последних днях земной жизни Христа становится парадигмой повествования. Факультетом ненужных вещей назван следовательницей НКВД факультет права — для советского режима это действительно было так. Роман имеет три линии повествования — судьба арестанта Зыбина, защитника ненужных вещей, Корнилова, осведомителя, предателя этих вещей и следователей — палачей Зыбина: «эти трое: выгнанный следователь, пьяный осведомитель по кличке Овод (все, видно, времена нуждаются в своем Оводе) и тот, третий, без кого эти двое существовать не могли.» В сплетении этих трех судеб ткется ткань романа, богатого многими героями и событиями. «А случилась вся эта невеселая история в лето от рождения Вождя народов Иосифа Виссарионовича Сталина пятьдесят восьмое, а от Рождества Христова в тысяча девятьсот тридцать седьмой недобрый, жаркий и чреватый страшным будущим год.» Надо иметь ввиду, что «Факультет ненужных вещей» (как и его «пролог» — «Хранителей древностей») — во многом автобиографический роман. История ареста Зыбина — это собственно история ареста Домбровского. Следователи Домбровского выведены под своими собственными именами. Героиня романа Клара — это жена писателя — Клара Фазулаевна Турумова-Домбровская. Читаемость: Язык: Объём текста: Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin . Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin . Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin . Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin . Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin . |
| Aegyptus, qui prius Aeria dicebatur, ab Aegypto Danai fratre postea ibi regnante nomen accepit. Haec ab oriente Syriae ac Rubro mari coniuncta, ab occasu Libyam habet, a septentrione mare Magnum, a meridie vero introrsus recedit, pertendens usque ad Aethiopas; regio caeli imbribus insueta et pluviarum ignara. Nilus solus eam circumfluens inrigat, et inundatione sua fecundat; unde et ferax frugibus multam partem terrarum frumento alit; ceterorum quoque negotiorum adeo copiosa ut inpleat necessariis mercibus etiam orbem terrarum. Finis Aegypti Canopea a Canope Menelai gubernatore, sepulto in ea insula quae Libyae principium et ostium Nili facit. Seres oppidum orientis, a quo et genus Sericum et regio nuncupata [est]. Haec ab Scythico Oceano et mari Caspio ad Oceanum orientalem inflectitur, nobilibus frondibus fertilis, e quibus vellera decerpuntur, quae ceterarum gentium Seres ad usum vestium vendunt. Bactriae regionis proprius amnis Bactros vocabulum dedit. Partes huius quae pone sunt Propanisi iugis ambiuntur, quae adversae sunt Indi fluvii fontibus terminantur; reliqua includit Ochus fluvius. Mittit Bactria fortissimos camelos numquam adterentes pedes. Scythia sicut et Gothia a Magog filio Iaphet fertur cognominata. Cuius terra olim ingens fuit; nam ab oriente India, a septentrione per paludes Maeotides inter Danubium et Oceanum usque ad Germaniae fines porrigebatur. Postea vero minor effecta, a dextra orientis parte, qua Oceanus Sericus tenditur, usque ad mare Caspium, quod est ad occasum; dehinc a meridie usque ad Caucasi iugum deducta est, cui subiacet Hyrcania ab occasu habens pariter gentes multas, propter terrarum infecunditatem late vagantes. Ex quibus quaedam agros incolunt, quaedam portentuosae ac truces carnibus humanis et eorum sanguine vivunt. Scythiae plures terrae sunt locupletes, inhabitabiles tamen plures; nam dum in plerisque locis auro et gemmis affluant, gryphorum inmanitate accessus hominum rarus est. Smaragdis autem optimis haec patria est: cyaneus quoque lapis et crystallus purissimus Scythiae est. |
| Hanc enim doctrinam ab antiquissimis temporibus vigentem, ac fidelium animis penitus insitam, et Sacrorum Antistitum curis studiisque per catholicum orbem mirifio propagatam ipsa Ecelesia luculentissiae significavit, cum eiusdem Virginis Conceptionem publico fidelium cultui ac venerationi proponere non dubitavit. Quo illustri quidem facto ipsius Virginis Conceptionem veluti singularem, miram, et a reliquorum hominum primordiis longissime secretam, et omnino sanctam colendam exhibuit, cum Ecclesia nonnisi de Sanctis dies festos concelebret. Atque idcirco vei ipsissima verba, quibus divinae Scripturae de increata Saptentia loquuntur, eiusque sempitemas origines repraesentant, consuevit turn in ecclesiasticis officiis, turn in sacrosancta Liturgia adhibere, et ad illius Virginis primordia transferre, quae uno eodemque decreto cum Divinae Sapientiae incamatione fuerant praeistituta. Enimvero Praedecessores Nostri vehementer gloriati sunt Apostolica sua auctoritate festum Conceptionis in Romana Ecclesia instituere, ac proprio officio propriaque missa, quibus praerogativa immunitatis ab hereditaria labe manifestissime asserebatur, augere, bonestare, et cultum iam institutum omni ope promovere, amplificare sive erogatis indulgentiis, sive facultate tributa civitatibus, provinciis, regnisque, ut Deiparam sub titulo Immaculatae Conceptionis patronam sibi deligerent, sive comprobatis Sodalitatibus, Congregationibus, Religiosisque Familiis ad Immaculatae Conceptionis bonorem institutis, sive laudibus eorum pietati delatis, qui monasteria, xenodochia, altaria, templa sub Immaculati Conceptus titulo erexerint, aut sacramenti religione interposita Immaculatam Deiparae Conceptionem strenue propugnare spoponderint. Insuper summopere laetati sunt decemere Conceptionis festum ab omni Ecclesia esse habendum eodem censu ac numero, quo festum Nativitatis, idemque Conceptionis festum cum octava ab universa Ecclesia celebrandum, et ab omnibus inter ea, quae praecepta sunt, sancte colendum, ac Pontificiam Cappellam in Patriarchali Nostra Liberiana Basilica die Virginis Conceptioni sacro quotannis esse peragendam. Atque exoptantes in fidelium animis quotidie magis fovere hanc de Immaculata Deiparae Conceptione doctrinam, eorumque pietatem excitare ad ipsam Virginem sine labe originali conceptam colendam et venerandam, gavisi sunt quam libentissime facultatem tribuere, ut in Lauretanis Litaniis, et in ipsa Missae praefatione Immaculatus eiusdem Virginis proclamaretur Conceptus, atque adeo lex credendi ipsa supplicandi lege statueretur. Nos porro tantorum Praedecessorum vestigiis inhaerentes non solum quae ab ipsis pientissime sapientissimeque fuerant constituta probavimus et recepimus, verum etiam memores institutionis Sixti IV proprium de Immaculata Conceptione officium auctoritate Nostra munivimus, illiusque usum universae Ecclesiae laetissimo prorsus animo concessimus. |
| Nefarius, non dignus farre, quo primo cibi genere vita hominum sustentabatur. [Alias nefarius nec dicendus.] [Nutritor, quasi nutu eruditor.] Nefandus, id est nec nominandus quidem. Nuntius est [et] qui nuntiat et quod nuntiatur, id est γγελος κα γγελα. Sed nuntius ipse homo genere masculino: id vero, quod nuntiat, genere neutro, ut hoc nuntium et haec nuntia. Nazaraeus, id est sanctus Dei. Nazaraeus olim dicebatur qui sanctam comam nutriebat et nihil contaminatum conspiciebat, abstinens se a vino omnique sicera, quae mentem ab integra sanitate pervertit. Nugas autem Hebraeum nomen est. Ita enim in Prophetis est expositum, ubi dicit Sophonias (3,4): «Nugas, qui a lege recesserunt,» ut nosse possimus linguam Hebraicam omnium linguarum esse matrem. Nugigerulus appellatus ab eo quod sit turpis nuntius. Neglegens, [quasi] nec legens. Nepos dictus a genere quodam scorpionum qui natos suos consumit, excepto eum, qui dorso eius insiderit; nam rursus ipse qui servatus fuerit consumit patrem: unde homines qui bona parentum per luxuriam consumunt nepotes dicuntur. Hinc quoque nepotatio pro luxuria ponitur, qua certe quaeque res consumuntur. Niger, quasi nubiger: quia non serenus, sed fusco opertus. Unde et nubilum diem tetrum dicimus. O Orthodoxus, rectae gloriae. Orator ab ore vocatus, a perorando nominatus, id est dicendo; nam orare dicere est. Obaudiens, ab aure, eo quod audiat inperantem. Ospes, quod inferat ostio pedem. Ospes, facilis, aptus et ostio patens: unde et ospitalis homo dicitur. Osor, inimicus, ab odio dictus, sicut amator ab amore; et est generis communis. Odibilis, odio aptus. Obsitus, obsessus, id est undique insidiis convallatus. Obscenus, inpurae libidinis, a vitio Obscorum dictus. Obtunsus, hebetior et obclusior, quasi ex omni parte tunsus. Obnixus, contranisus et conabundus. Obnexus, quia obligatus est nexibus culpae. Oblectator, quasi cum lacte, cum fraude, ut Terentius (Andr. 648): Nisi me lactasses amantem. Unde et oblectare dictum est. Obtrectator, malignus et qui obstringillando officiendoque non sinat quempiam progredi et augescere. |
| Am 23. Oktober 2015 wurde er zum Bischof im Optina-Kloster ernannt. Am 26. Oktober wurde er während des Gottesdienstes im Nowodewitschi-Kloster in Moskau zum Bischof geweiht. Die Gottesdienste hat der Heiligste Patriarch Kyrill vorstanden. Mit Erlass des Heiligsten Patriarchen Kyrill ab 28. Oktober 2015 wurde er zum Vorsteher der Kirche der Geburt Johannes des Täufers in Moskau (Priesnensky) ernannt. Mit Beschluss vom Heiligen Synod ab 24. Dezember 2015 (Protokolle 89) wurde er in den Kirchlichen Oberrat der Russischen Orthodoxen Kirche aufgenommen. Mit Beschluss vom Heiligen Synod ab 29. Juli 2017 (Protokolle 52) wurde er vom Amt des Leiters der Kirchen des Moskauer Patriarchats in Italien und des Vorstehers der Russischen Kirche St. Katharina von Rom freigemacht. Der Synod hat beschlossen, den Titel “Zwenigorodskij” zu haben. Im September- Dezember 2017 - der vorläufige Geschäftsführer der Berliner Diözese. Mit Beschluss vom Heiligen Synod ab 28. Dezember 2017 (Protokolle 116) wurde er zum Leiter der Diözesen von Wien und Österreich und Budapest und Ungarn mit dem Titel “von Wien und Budapest” und der Erhaltung des Amtes vom Leiter der Verwaltung des Moskauer Patriarchats für ausländische Errichtungen ernannt. Mit Beschluss vom Heiligen Synod wurde ihm auch die vorläufige Verwaltung der Kirchen des Moskauer Patriarchats in Italien beauftragt. Am 1. Februar 2018 wurde er im Christ-Erlöser-Kirche in Moskau vom Heiligsten Patriarchen Kyrill zum Erzbischof geweiht. Mit Beschluss vom Heiligen Synod ab 15. Oktober 2018 (Protokolle 77) wurde er von der vorläufigen Verwaltung der Kirchen des Moskauer Patriarchats in Italien freigemacht. Mit Beschluss vom Heiligen Synod ab 30. Mai 2019 (Protokolle 49) wurde er zum Hochgeweihten von Korsun und Westeuropa, Patriarchenexarch von Westeuropa, vorläufigen Leiter der Kirche des Moskauer Patriarchats in Italien, mit der Abberufung der Leitung der Diözesen von Wien und Österreich und Budapest und Ungarn und der Erhaltung des Amtes des Leiters von Verwaltung des Moskauer Patriarchats für ausländische Errichtungen ernannt. |
| Iste est autem Agenor Libyae filius, ex qua et Libya, id est Africa, fertur cognominata; unde apparet prius Libyam accepisse vocabulum, postea Europam. Europa autem in tertiam partem orbis divisa incipit a flumine Tanai, descendens ad occasum per septentrionalem Oceanum usque in fines Hispaniae; cuius pars orientalis et meridiana a Ponto consurgens, tota mari Magno coniungitur, et in insulas Gades finitur. Prima Europae regio Scythia inferior, quae a Maeotidis paludibus incipiens inter Danubium et Oceanum septentrionalem usque ad Germaniam porrigitur; quae terra generaliter propter barbaras gentes, quibus inhabitatur, Barbarica dicitur. Huius pars prima Alania est, quae ad Maeotidis paludes pertingit; post hanc Dacia, ubi et Gothia; deinde Germania, ubi plurimam partem Suevi incoluerunt. Germania post Scythiam inferiorem a Danubio inter Rhenum fluvium Oceanumque conclusa cingitur a septentrione et occasu Oceano, ab ortu vero Danubio, a meridie Rheno flumine dirimitur. Terra dives virum ac populis numerosis et inmanibus; unde et propter fecunditatem gignendorum populorum Germania dicta est. Gignit aves Hyrcanias, quarum pinnae nocte perlucent; bisontes quoque feras et uros atque alces parturit. Mittit et gemmas, crystallum et sucinum, callaicum quoque viridem, et ceraunium candidum. Duae sunt autem Germaniae: superior iuxta septentrionalem Oceanum, inferior circa Rhenum. Provincias autem quas Danubius a Barbarico ad Mediterraneum mare secludit: prima est Moesia, a messium proventu vocata; unde et eam veteres Cereris horreum nuncupabant. Haec autem ab oriente ostiis Danubii iungitur, ab Euro vero Thraciae, a meridie Macedoniae, ab occasu Histriae copulatur. Post Moesiam autem Pannonia est. Inde Noricus ager frigidus et parcius fructuosus. Post quem Raeticus frugibus ferax, qui excipit Galliam Belgicam. Thraciae Thiras Iaphet filius veniens nomen dedisse perhibetur: alii a saevitia incolarum Thraciam appellatam dixerunt. Huic ab oriente Propontis et urbs Constantinopolis opposita est, a septentrione vero Ister obtenditur, a meridie vero Aegeo mari adhaeret, ab occasu Macedonia illi subiacet. |
| Iudaea regio Palaestinae ex nomine Iudae appellata, ex cuius tribu reges habuit. Haec prius Chanaan dicta a filio Cham, sive a decem Chananaeorum gentibus, quibus expulsis eandem terram Iudaei possiderunt. Initium longitudinis eius a vico Arfa usque ad vicum Iuliadem porrigitur, in quo Iudaeorum pariter ac Tyriorum communis habitatio est. Latitudo autem eius a monte Libani usque ad Tiberiadis lacum extenditur. In medio autem Iudaeae civitas Hierosolyma est, quasi umbilicus regionis totius. Terra variarum opum dives, frugibus fertilis, aquis inlustris, opima balsamis. Unde secundum elementorum gratiam existimaverunt Iudaei eam promissam patribus terram fluentem mel et lac, cum hic illis Deus resurrectionis praerogativam polliceretur. Samaria regio Palaestinae ab oppido quodam nomen accepit qui vocabatur Samaria, civitas quondam regalis in Israel, quae nunc ab Augusti nomine Sebastia nuncupatur. Haec regio inter Iudaeam et Galilaeam media iacet, incipiens a vico cui nomen est Eleas, deficiens in terra Agrabath. Situs eius natura consimili nec ullo differens a Iudaea. Galilaea regio Palaestinae vocata quod gignat candidiores homines quam Palaestina. Haec autem duplex est, superior et inferior, sibi tamen conexae, Syriae et Phoeniciae adhaerentes. Terra earum opima et ferax et fructibus satis fecunda. Pentapolis regio in confinio Arabiae et Palaestinae sita, dicta a quinque civitatibus inpiorum quae caelesti igne consumptae sunt. Terra amplius ab Hierosolymis olim uberrima, nunc autem deserta atque exusta; nam pro scelere incolarum de caelo descendit ignis, qui regionem illam in cineres aeternos dissolvit. Cuius umbra quaedam et species in favillis et arboribus ipsis etiam adhuc videtur. Nascuntur enim ibi poma virentia sub tanta specie maturitatis, ut edendi desiderium gignant; si carpas fatiscunt ac resolvuntur in cinerem, fumumque exhalant quasi adhuc ardeant. Nabathea regio a Nabeth filio Ismael nuncupata. Iacet autem inter Iudaeam et Arabiam, et surgens ab Euphrate in mare Rubrum porrigitur, et est pars Arabiae. |
| It was therefore quite timely to include in the agenda of the present Conference this issue, and I thank its conveners for asking me to present the subject. If for a Greek speaking person it is relatively easy to deliver a conference in English or French about the meaning of religion, it is not so simple to do the same as far as ethnicity and nationalism are concerned. Simply because in the Greek language these two notions – both originating from the word ethnos, which literally means “nation” – very often overlap and lead to confusion. For example, in Greek the term nationality corresponds to ethnikotis, nationalism to ethnikismos, ethnicity to ethnismos. Therefore before speaking about the relation of ethnicity and nationalism to Religion and to the Church in particular, it will be helpful to first clarify the meaning of these two terms as they are being used nowadays. On several occasions there were attempts to define the meaning of the terms ethnicity, ethnic group and nation. By ethnologists, anthropologists, historians or politicians. Let me present some examples. According to Richard Schermerhorn, a pioneer of the study on ethnic relations, an ethnic group is a collectivity within a larger society, having real or putative common ancestry, common memory of a historical past, and a cultural focus on one or more symbolic elements defined as the epitome of their peoplehood: e.g. kinship patterns, physical continuity, religious affiliation, language, nationality and a consciousness of kin among members of the group. For Joshua Fishman, ethnicity was always experienced as a kinship phenomenon, as a continuity within the self and within those who share an intergenerational link to common ancestors. In this sense ethnicity is a tangible, living reality that makes every human a link in an eternal bond from generation to generation, from past ancestors to those in the future. For anthropologist Fredrik Barth, the term ethnic group designates a population that is largely biologically self perpetuating, that shares fundamental cultural values, and has a membership which identifies itself as constituting a category distinguishable from other categories of people, 331 while for Steve Fenton ethnicity is a social phenomenon embedded in social, political and economic structures, that form an important element of both the way ethnicity is expressed and the social importance it assumes. |
| As Metropolitan Mar Stephanos informed the participants in the meeting, a process had started to include the name of the Blessed Matrona of Moscow in the liturgical calendar of the Malankara Church. Participants of the meeting felt important to note that St. Matrona is considered to be a heavenly patron of the bilateral dialogue between the two Churches. 13. Carrying out projects and joint events dedicated to the history of the bilateral contacts The participants in the meeting mentioned several outstanding figures in the history of the bilateral relations who had done a lot to promote the inter-church dialogue. Such, among others, were Archimandrite Andronik (Yelpidinsky), Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) of Leningrad and Novgorod, Metropolitan Paulose Mar Gregorios (Paul Varghese), and Nikolai Zernov. The Working Group members acknowledged the importance of popularizing their contribution and assisting in preparing and releasing publications about them in Russia and India. 14. Cooperation in the diaspora The Russian Orthodox Church and the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church take pastoral care of their faithful living beyond their canonical territories and have diocesan and parochial bodies in the diaspora, in particular, in Europe, America, Asia and Africa. As the participants in the meeting pointed out, cooperation between those bodies at the regional level will be useful in providing mutual support on a wide range of issues. 15. Promoting theological talks The history of the bilateral contacts between the two Churches has a rich tradition of theological talks which the Working Group members considered to be of great importance. This experience is be explored and popularized and the talks are to continue in future. The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church delegation expressed appreciation to Metropolitan Leonid of Klin and the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate for hosting the second meeting of the Working Group in Moscow. |
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