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  • Dr Eugene Carson Blake. Welcoming Address To His All Holiness Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch Of Constantinople (1967)
  • Address by His All Holiness Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch (1967)
  • An Orthodox Approach to Diaconia (1978)
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Tamara Grdzelidze Tamara Grdzelidze, D.Phil. (University of Oxford), Ph.D. (Tbilisi State University), Doctor honoris causa (University of Bern), is the Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Georgia to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta since 2014. Until then, she worked between 2001 and 2013, as an Orthodox theologian at the World Council of Churches, at the Secretariat on Faith and Order Commission for promotion of Christian unity (Geneva, Switzerland). She published widely on Georgian hagiography and Church history, inter-confessional dialogue, ecclesiology, hermeneutics, orthodoxy and the contemporary world.

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His Eminence Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon (born in 1931) is one of the most eminent modern Orthodox theologian. He began his studies at the University of Thessaloniki but took his first theology degree from the University of Athens in 1955. He studied patristics under Father Georges Florovsky at Harvard Divinity School, receiving his M.T.S. in 1956, and his doctorate in theology from the University of Athens in 1965. He was professor of theology for 14 years at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Geneva, Gregorian University, and King’s College, London. Metropolitan John’s influence is widely felt, both among Protestant and Roman Catholic theologians, as well as within the Orthodox Church. Some have suggested that his 1985 book, Being as Communion, is perhaps the most significant theological book of the late 20th century.

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