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ROME, JUNE 7, 2004 (Zenit.org).- A new, seventh volume of the Orthodox Encyclopedia -- to which Catholic scholars contributed -- was presented in the Dionysia International Center for Arts and Cultures.
The volume dedicates ample space to the Vatican and the Catholic Church. The writing of this section was entrusted to Cardinal Jorge Mejía, retired archivist and librarian of the Holy See.
Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; Cardinal Thomas Spidlik, of the Pontifical Institute of Oriental Studies; and Archbishop Verezskz Evgheny, rector of the Ecclesial Academy of Moscow, attended the meeting last Tuesday.
The work, "with which we endeavor to help Christians rediscover the Orthodox Churches," began in 2000 and is being carried out by the "Orthodox Encyclopedia" Research Center of the Russian Orthodox Church, Vatican Radio quoted Archbishop Evgheny as saying.
The center was founded under the patronage of the Patriarchate of Moscow and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who gave John Paul II the first six volumes of this monumental work last November.
"This encyclopedia can be considered one of the most important and fortunate steps of the Russian Orthodox Church in carrying out its duty of a new evangelization in Europe," Cardinal Kasper said.
ROME, JUNE 7, 2004 (Zenit.org).- A new, seventh volume of the Orthodox Encyclopedia -- to which Catholic scholars contributed -- was presented in the Dionysia International Center for Arts and Cultures.
The volume dedicates ample space to the Vatican and the Catholic Church. The writing of this section was entrusted to Cardinal Jorge Mejía, retired archivist and librarian of the Holy See.
Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; Cardinal Thomas Spidlik, of the Pontifical Institute of Oriental Studies; and Archbishop Verezskz Evgheny, rector of the Ecclesial Academy of Moscow, attended the meeting last Tuesday.
The work, "with which we endeavor to help Christians rediscover the Orthodox Churches," began in 2000 and is being carried out by the "Orthodox Encyclopedia" Research Center of the Russian Orthodox Church, Vatican Radio quoted Archbishop Evgheny as saying.
The center was founded under the patronage of the Patriarchate of Moscow and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who gave John Paul II the first six volumes of this monumental work last November.
"This encyclopedia can be considered one of the most important and fortunate steps of the Russian Orthodox Church in carrying out its duty of a new evangelization in Europe," Cardinal Kasper said.
