Primacy and Conciliarity in the Light of Orthodox Teaching

On September 16, 2021, His Grace Bishop Irinej of Backa participated in the work of the conference organized by the Synodal Biblical-Theological Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church on the topic "World Orthodoxy: Primacy and Conciliarity in the Light of Orthodox Teaching".

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia opened the conference, while Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, delivered the key plenary report.

The first session of the conference began with a presentation by His Grace Bishop Irinej of Backa on the topic "Church autocephaly yesterday and today".

The conference was attended by members of the Synodal Bible-Theological Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church, representatives of theological schools and spiritual academies of the Russian Orthodox Church, university professors, as well as representatives of other local Churches.

Source: Diocese of Backa