Program
Spiritual Paternity
XVI Internazional Ecumenical Conference
on Orthodox Spirituality
In collaboration with the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Patriarchate of Moscow
XVI Internazional Ecumenical Conference
on Orthodox Spirituality
SPIRITUAL PATERNITY
Thursday 18 September
9:30 am
Spiritual Paternity: Biblical Elements
Enzo Bianchi (Monastery of Bose)
A Spiritual Contemporary Father:
A Memory of Metropolitan Emilianos of Silyvria (1916-2008)
Athenagoras of Sinope (Bruxelles)
4:00 pm
Basil of Caesarea as Example of Spiritual Father
Gheorghios Martzelos (Tessaloniki)
John Chrysostom, Spiritual Father of Olympias
Nicolas Abou Mrad (Balamand)
Spiritual Maternity in Contemporary Russian Monasticism
Gavriila Gluchova (Grodno)
Friday 19 September
9:00 am
Spiritual Discernment according to Some Desert Fathers
Stavros Yangazoglou (Athens)
Spiritual Paternity in Western Monastic Tradition
Michel Van Parys (Chevetogne)
The Igumen as Spiritual Father in the Studite Tradition
Olivier Delouis (Paris)
4:00 pm
The Teacher-Disciple Relationship
in the Letters of Nil Sorskij (1433-1508)
Gelian M. Prochorov (St Petersburg)
The Spiritual Father in John Climacus'
Discourse “To the Shepherd”
Damaskinos Gavalas (Santorini)
Saturday 20 September
9:00 am
Spiritual Paternity and Christian Maturity.
The Letters to the Nuns by Makarij di Optina,
Ignatij Brjan?aninov, Theophan the Recluse
Natalija Ju. Suchova (Moscow)
The Practice of Spiritual Paternity
in Nicodemus Aghiorite's Exomologhitarion
Gheorghios Chrysostomou (Veria)
Spiritual Paternity in the Serbian Orthodox Church
Gajo Gai? (Belgrad)
4:00 pm
Spiritual Paternity in Fellowship with Men and Women:
Aleksej Metchev (1859-1923)
Antoine Arjakovsky (L’viv)
A Spiritual Mother amidst Revolutions and Persecutions:
Abbess Famar’ (Mardjanashvili, † 1936)
Nina Kauchtschischwili (Bergamo)
Sunday 21 September
7:30 am Divine Liturgy
9:30 am
Spiritual Paternity and Contemporary World
Metropolitan Seraphim of Germania (Nürnberg)
Conclusions