The presence of the Orthodox Churches and the Eastern-rite Catholic Churches in the III Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops .

• Authors: Mihály Laurinyecz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this article is to analyse the events and documents of the Third Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in 2014 and Fourteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in 2015 in which Orthodox representatives also participated. It is commonly known that the Orthodox Churches allow divorced individuals to remarry and for remarried people to receive sacraments.In the present study we discuss who were present on behalf of the Orthodox Churches and sui iuris Eastern Catholics at the synod, what happened in relation to these denominations, and what references were made regarding Orthodox and Eastern practices and theology. First we look at the so-called “ordo” of the synods. Then we examine the preparatory documents in chronological order. After that we analyse the “Instrumentum laboris”. Following the analysis of the introductory document, the “Relatio ante disceptationem”, we summarise the activity of the so-called “circuli minores” based on the briefing reports. The entire extraordinary synod is summarised by the “Relatio synodi”, upon which the “Messaggio del Sinodo dei Vescovi al Popolo di Dio” is based. Finally we categorised the various issues discussed.

Keywords

EN

family synod 2014; eastern catholic churches; orthodox churches

PL

Synod o rodzinie 2014; wschodnie Kościoły katolickie; Kościoły prawosławne

• Publisher: Akademia Katolicka w Warszawie
• Journal: Warszawskie Studia Teologiczne
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 32
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 138-150

Dates

published

2019-01-05

Contributors

author

Mihály Laurinyecz

Identifiers

DOI

10.30439/WST.2019.4.8