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Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania

 

“Orthodox Trail”

 

20-30 October, 2008

 

Overview:

 



 
For downloadable program overview <click here>

 


Following similar events in Italy in 2006 (The Focolare Movement) and in the U.K. in 2007 (Celtic spirituality). This year the main event of P.L.A.C.E. will be the "Orthodox Trail" between Turkey and Romania. This event will offer urban ministry practitioners the opportunity to engage with Byzantine Spirituality in Asia Minor and the Balkans.
 
Father Mihai Pavel is coordinating the trail, which is from 21st to 30th October. I describe a trail as 'a consultation on the move', a spectacular cultural education and experience. 

After a tour of the old city of the Istanbul, we will visit the Ecumenical Patriarchate <click here>, the ancient and modern Churches of the Asia Minor (Turkey) and Balkans (Bulgaria and Romania) will be visible in their historic contexts and through dialogue with church leaders. We expect to visit sites in Cappadocia connected with St. Basil the Great, St. Gregory of Nazianzus (brother of St. Basil the Great) and St. Simeon the Stylite. Biblical sites on the trail include Laodicea, the island of Patmos and the temple of Artemis in Ephesus.
 
Some of the church leaders and institutions that we expect to see on this trail include:
  • Dr. Ray Bakke will be coming as a consultant and to teach on global urban ministry and the Orthodox tradition.\
  • His Eminence Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew (Istanbul) 
  • His Eminence Metropolitan Laurentiu Streza of Transilvania (Sibiu, Romania - a professor of liturgy)
  • His Eminence Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Daniel of Moldova and Bucovina (North East Romania) - a great reformer and missionary
  • World Vision Romania Office - a model for church partnerships in mission and community development
  • Faculty of Theology in Bucharest - where Fr. Dumitru Staniloae worked coached many of the now a days Romanian Orthodox church leaders
  • Faculty of Theology in Sibiu - where Fr. Dumitru Staniloae started his career as professor of theology 
  • Lord's Army Headquarter in Sibiu - a local Orthodox renewal movement that started after the First World War and survived the trials of the communist period
  • Dumitru Staniloae" Faculty of Theology in Iasi - a model for trans-cultural and denominational openness in the Fr. Dumitru Staniloae tradition
It is recommended that you make plans to arrive in Istanbul by 20th October and depart from Bucharest on 31st October. If you would like to come, please register by write to me, Robert Calvert mailto:ScotsIntChurch@cs.com OR to Fr. Mihai Pavel mailto:mihai_pavel@wvi.org and send 950 euros or a deposit to:

Transylvania Bank - Iasi, Romania.
IBAN: RO85BTRL02404201419630XX
SWIFT: BTRLRO22ISA
Mihai PAVEL, World Vision Romania
Mobile: + 040 744 388 941
Tel: + 040 232 254 637
Fax: + 040 232 233 906
E-mail: mihai_pavel@wvi.org


Robert Calvert