St. Vladimir’s Seminary Summer Conference 2009

June 2009

From June 18th through the 20th, 2009, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Seminary hosted this conference for clergy and laity that had as its theme “The Council and the Tomos: Twentieth-Century Landmarks Towards a Twenty-First-Century Church.”

Conference speakers focused on two watersheds that have shaped the Orthodox Church in America (OCA): the All-Russian Council (Sobor) of 1917–18 and the Tomos of Autocephaly granted in 1970 by the Russian Orthodox Church to its daughter church, the OCA, then known as the “North American Diocese.”

Conference participants likewise addressed the significance of the OCA’s presence in North America, and future paths and possibilities open to it, including its interface with the multi-jurisdictional Orthodox Christian communities in the United States and Canada.

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Date	Title & Description	Duration
Jun 20, 2009	Responses to Metropolitan Jonah’s Address Respondents: Charles Ajalat, Fr. Mark Arey, Archimandrite Luke, Archbishop Nathaniel To read the paper that respondent Charles Ajalat prepared for this discussion, please click on the "transcript" button below. Click to play	128:41
Jun 20, 2009	Metropolitan Jonah, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America A Vision for Now, on the Basis of History Click to play	38:17
Jun 20, 2009	Matthew Namee, Historian and Host of American Orthodox History (AFR) The Myth of Past Unity Click to play	56:41
Jun 20, 2009	Bishop Basil of Amphipolis, Exarchate of Parishes of Russian Tradition in Western Europe Introduction by Fr. John Erickson The Vision of Chalcedon Canon 28 Click to play	67:14
Jun 19, 2009	Fr. Leonid Kishkovsky, Director of External Affairs and Interchurch Relations (OCA) The Tomos of Autocephaly Click to play	47:43
Jun 19, 2009	Archimandrite Kirill Hovorun, Head of the Dept. of External Church Relations (UOC) Introduction by Paul Meyendorff Autocephaly: From Canon to Myth Click to play	41:32
Jun 19, 2009	Dr. Vera Shevzov, Associate Professor of Religion at Smith College Sobor, Sobornost, and the Problem of the Laity Click to play	40:09
Jun 19, 2009	Dr. Scott Kenworthy, Assistant Professor of Comparative Religion at Miami University The Limits of Sobornost: The Case of Monastic Reform During the 1917-1918 Sobor Click to play	49:13
Jun 19, 2009	Fr. Hiacynthe Destivelle, Theology Professor at the Catholic Institute in Paris Opening Remarks by Dr. Peter Bouteneff The 1917-1918 Council: Its Composition, Processes, and Governing Principles, and Their Application from 1917 to the Present Click to play	59:12
Jun 18, 2009	Fr. Alexander Garklavs, Chancellor of the Orthodox Church in America Opening Remarks by Fr. John Behr and Fr. Chad Hatfield True Faith on the Ground of Liberty: St. Tikhon and the 1917-18 Council - Architect and Blueprint for the Orthodox Church in America Click to play	83:28