JOINT COMMISSION BETWEEN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE MALANKARA SYRIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH" (INDIA)

United to Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch
under Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I Iwas at Damascus

« www.syrianorthodoxchurch.org »

SPONSORS:

The Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church
« www.indianorthodoxchurch.com »
  

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

COMMON DECLARATION of Pope Paul VI and Mar Ignatius Jacob III 27 October 1971
COMMON DECLARATION of Pope John Paul II and Mar Ignatius Zakka I Iwas 23 June 1984
 
MEETINGS:

December 15, 1990 - Manganam, India
Preparatory meeting; establishment of three sub-committees on pastoral problems, inter-marriage, historical background of the division

1. December 6-7, 1991 - Kottayam, India
   "Mixed Marriages; Pastoral problems; Historical Background of the Division"
2. December 14-15, 1992 - Kottayam, India
   "Mixed Marriages; Pastoral Guidelines for Catholics and Orthodox"
3. November 19, 1993 - Mutanthuruthy, India
   "Mixed Marriages; Pastoral Guidelines for Catholics and Orthodox; Bishops' Function and Role at Local and Regional Levels" - AGREEMENT ON INTER-CHURCH MARRIAGES and PASTORAL GUIDELINES
4. December 9, 1994 - Kottayam, India
   "Reception of the Guidelines and Pastoral Directives on Marriage; Function and Role of Bishops on the Regional and Local Levels; Role of the Episcopate in the Unity of the Church; Common Witness"
5. September 25, 2000 - Kottayam, India
   Preparatory Meeting
   
6. October 14-16, 2001 - Mulanthuruthy (Ernakulam), India
   “Assessment of the Agreements reached in the Period between 1990 and 1994 and an Evaluation of their Application on the Practical Level; Doctrinal Study on the Relation between Episcopacy and the Petrine Ministry; Historical Approach of our Common Heritage, Developed and Lived during the Pre-Portuguese Period”
   
7. October 13-15, 2002 - Kottayam, India
   “Common Witness; The Petrine Ministry in Relation to the See of Rome and the See of Antioch”
8. October 7, 2003 - Mulanthuruthy (Ernakulam), India
   “The Nature of the Communion: Biblical and Ecclesiological Perspectives; common witness”
   
9. October 11, 2004 - Kottayam, India
   “Church as communion; common witness” – NB change in the name of the church now known as the Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church
10. December 5, 2005 - Puthencruz, India
    “Church as communion; models of communion; common witness and pastoral initiative”
11. September 11, 2006 - Kottayam, India
    “Historic relations between the Church of India and other Churches of the East and West; how to move toward full communion; drafting a text on ‘Episcopacy and the Petrine Ministry’”
12. October 25-26, 2007 - Mulanthuruthy (Ernakulam), India
    “Study of the St. Thomas Christians in India and the patterns of Communion in the First Millennium; Models of Communion and How to Promote Communion Today; Common Witness’”
    

 
 
Indice | Attività del Centro | Corsi | Pubblicazioni | Conferenze
Settimana di Preghiera | Biblioteca | Dialoghi Interconfessionali
Direttorio dei Centri di Studi Ecumenici | Society of the Atonement
Guest Book | Credits | Site Map

---

1999-2006 © - Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, Inc.
Remarks to Webmaster at webmaster@pro.urbe.it