Second Pre-Conciliar Pan-Orthodox Conference, 3-12 September 1982

This article reproduces the official decisions adopted at the Second Pre-Conciliar Pan-Orthodox Conference, held at Chambésy from 3 to 12 September 1982 under the auspices of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. It is a commented institutional document addressing four major themes: impediments to marriage, the adaptation of fasting rules, the question of the calendar and the date of Easter, and the conditions for episcopal consecration. The central idea is that, on most of these points, the Conference either referred decisions to a later body or maintained the status quo, revealing the structural blockages of the pre-conciliar process. The preface underscores the mediocrity of the results, attributed to the resistance of the Eastern European Churches and to the fear of calendar-related schisms, to the detriment of a living and missionary pastoral practice. The historical contribution lies in the precise documentation of the state of pan-Orthodox negotiations at this stage of the journey toward the Great Council.