Jerusalem and the Patriarchate of Antioch
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This article is the transcription of a address by Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch, delivered in 1990 as part of an international symposium on the presence of Eastern Christians. The author examines the historical and spiritual role of Jerusalem as a place of convergence for the three Abrahamic traditions, before analyzing the relations between the Patriarchates of Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem from the origins of Christianity to the contemporary era. The article traces the Christological tensions between the Antiochene and Alexandrian schools, the successive schisms, the effects of Byzantine, Arab, and Ottoman domination, as well as Western proselytism on the Eastern Churches. Its main contribution lies in the historical contextualization of the contemporary renewal of the Eastern Churches and in the proposal of an ecclesiology of communion as the foundation for a rapprochement between Chalcedonian and pre-Chalcedonian Christians, Catholics and Orthodox, within the Antiochene sphere.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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