"INTERNATIONAL JOINT COMMISSION BETWEEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH"

SPONSORS:

Coptic Orthodox Church
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Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity formerly
Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity
« www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni »

Established by Pope Paul VI and Pope Shenouda III during meeting held in Rome, May 5-10, 1973 - COMMON DECLARATION
 
MEETINGS:

1. March 26-30, 1974 - Cairo, Egypt
   "Christology" - JOINT REPORT
2. October 27-31, 1975 - Cairo, Egypt
   "Vision and Understanding of the Unity We Seek" - COMMON REPORT
3. August 26-29, 1976 - Vienna, Austria
   "The Unity of the Church up to the Fifth Century" - COMMON REPORT and CHRISTOLOGICAL DECLARATION
4. March 13-18, 1978 - Cairo, Egypt
   "The Role of the Councils in the Life of the Church and on the Sacraments in Their Relation to the Church and the Economy of Salvation" - COMMON REPORT
5. June 23, 1979 - Cairo, Egypt
   "The Principles for Guiding the Search for Unity between the Catholic Church and the Coptic Orthodox Church" - PRINCIPLES AND PROTOCOL

CO-CHAIRMEN:

Rev. Msgr. Charles Moeller
Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, Vatican City

Bishop Gregorios
Bishop of Coptic Culture and Higher Theological Education, Egypt

CO-SECRETARIES:

Rev. John Long, S.J.
Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity

Dr. George Bebawi
Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity

MEETINGS:

1. October 3-8 12, 1988 - Amba Bishoy Monastery, Wadi El Natrun, Egypt
   "The Mystery of Redemption and Its Consequences for the Last Ends of the Human Person" - COMMON REPORT and BRIEF FORMULA ON CHRISTOLOGY (February 12, 1988)
2. April 23-27, 1990 - Amba Bishoy Monastery, Wadi El Natrun, Egypt
   "The History of the "filioque" Controversy; Biblical, Theological and Patristic Aspects of the Procession of the Holy Spirit; The Addition of the Formula ‘Filioque' to the Text of the Nicean-Constantinopolitan Creed" - REPORT
3. April 18-24, 1991 - Amba Bishoy Monastery, Wadi El Natrun, Egypt
   "The Doctrine of Purgatory"
4. February 25-29, 1992 - Amba Bishoy Monastery, Wadi El Natrun, Egypt
   "Trinitarian Theology, Christology, Procession of the Holy Spirit"
5. April 27- May 1, 1993 - Amba Bishoy Monastery, Wadi El Natrun, Egypt
   

CO-CHAIRMEN:

Bishop Pierre Duprey
Secretary, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

His Grace Metropolitan Bishoy
Bishop of Damiet, General Secretary of the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church

CO-SECRETARIES:

Msgr. Gérard Daucourt (1988-1990)
Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Rev. Bernard Dubasque (1991-)
Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

His Grace Amba Moussa
Bishop for Youth, Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate

 
 
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