- Coptic Orthodox Church
- Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity formerly Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity [ http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/chrstuni/index.htm ]
Sponsors
OO – RC – Copt
FIRST PHASE (1974-1978)
Established by Pope Paul VI and Pope Shenouda III during meeting held in Rome, May 5-10, 1973 – COMMON DECLARATION — Full-Text
MEETINGS
1. March 26-30, 1974 – Cairo, Egypt
“Christology” – JOINT REPORT — Full-Text
2. October 27-31, 1975 – Cairo, Egypt
“Vision and Understanding of the Unity We Seek” – COMMON REPORT — Full-Text
3. August 26-29, 1976 – Vienna, Austria
“The Unity of the Church up to the Fifth Century” – COMMON REPORT — Full-Text
and CHRISTOLOGICAL DECLARATION — Full-Text
4. March 13-18, 1978 – Cairo, Egypt
“The Role of the Councils in the Life of the Church and on the Sacraments in Their Relation to the Church and the Economy of Salvation” – COMMON REPORT — Full-Text
June 23, 1979 – Cairo, Egypt
“The Principles for Guiding the Search for Unity between the Catholic Church and the Coptic Orthodox Church” – PRINCIPLES AND PROTOCOL — Full-Text
CO-CHAIRMEN:
Rev. Msgr. Charles Moeller, Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, Vatican City
Bishop Gregorios, Bishop of Coptic Culture and Higher Theological Education, Egypt
CO-SECRETARIES:
Rev. John Long, S.J., Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity
Dr. George Bebawi, Professor of Patristics
SECOND PHASE (1988-1992)
5. October 3-8, 1988 – Amba Bishoy Monastery, Wadi El Natrun, Egypt
“The Mystery of Redemption and Its Consequences for the Last Ends of the Human Person” – COMMON REPORT and BRIEF FORMULA ON CHRISTOLOGY (February 12, 1988) — Full-Text
6. April 23-27, 1990 – Amba Bishoy Monastery, Wadi El Natrun, Egypt
“The History of the ‘Flioque’ Controversy; Biblical, Theological and Patristic Aspects of the Procession of the Holy Spirit; The Addition of the Formula ‘Filioque’ to the Text of the Nicean-Constantinopolitan Creed” – REPORT — Full-Text
7. April 18-24, 1991 – Amba Bishoy Monastery, Wadi El Natrun, Egypt
“The Doctrine of Purgatory”
8. February 25-29, 1992 – Amba Bishoy Monastery, Wadi El Natrun, Egypt
“Trinitarian Theology, Christology, Procession of the Holy Spirit” – REPORT — Full-Text
9. April 27- May 1, 1993 – Amba Bishoy Monastery, Wadi El Natrun, Egypt
CO-CHAIRMEN:
Bishop Pierre Duprey, Secretary, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
His Grace Metropolitan Bishoy, Bishop of Damiet, General Secretary of the Holy
Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church
CO-SECRETARIES:
Msgr. Gérard Daucourt, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (1988-1990)
Rev. Bernard Dubasque, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (1991-1992)
His Grace Amba Moussa, Bishop for Youth, Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate