Simpozionul internațional intitulat „Forme de organizare și funcționare a monahismului ortodox: tradiție bimilenară și provocări contemporane”
The International Symposium entitled „The organization and functioning of Orthodox monasticism: bimillennial tradition and today’s challenges”

Summary/Abstract: With the blessing of His Beatitude Daniel, the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, between 24-26 May 2021 „Iustin Patriarhul” Hall of „Dumitru Stăniloae” Continuing Formation Centre in Bucharest, hosted the online international symposium entitled „The organization and functioning of Orthodox monasticism: bimillennial tradition and today’s challenges”.The symposium was attended by hierarchs of the Romanian Orthodox Church and other sister Orthodox Autocephalous Churches, professors of the Faculties of Orthodox Theology in Romania and abroad, as well as experts, monastery exarchs, abbots and monks interested in the study of monastic organization. The participant professors belong to several foreign universities and to sister Orthodox Churches: the Patriarchate of Antioch, the Patriarchate of Moscow, the Patriarchate of Serbia, the Patriarchate of Georgia, and the Orthodox Church of Greece. During the online meeting sessions, participants mainly addressed the organization of monastic life during the first Christian millennium, and the way in which its principles continued to be applied in the Church during the second millennium, and afterwards, in the Orthodox Autocephalous Churches and especially the Romanian Orthodox Church, until today. Discussions addressed the canonical and nomocanonical provisions and the monastic rules of the first millennium, as well as various aspects concerning the interaction between monastic circles and contemporary society. The symposium also aimed to respond to the challenges of today’s society which is not only deeply secularized, but also secularizing, and promotes values which are often alien to Christian and monastic ones.

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