Daily program
XVIII International Ecumenical Conference
on Orthodox spirituality
in collaboration with the Orthodox Churches
XVIII International Ecumenical Conference
on Orthodox spirituality 
Bose, Wednesday 8 - Saturday 11 September 2010
in collaboration with the Orthodox Churches
  
WEDNESDAY 8 September 
Solemnity of the Nativity of the Mother of God
7:00 am
Celebration of the Orthodox Divine Liturgy
9:30 am
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
Introductory Remarks 
ENZO BIANCHI, Prior of Bose 
Church and Monastic Experience
? IRINEJ OF BA?KA, Novi Sad 
Communion and Solitude: Biblical Elements 
PETROS VASSILIADIS, Thessaloniki 
9:00 am
Communion and Solitude
according to St Basil of Caesarea
MICHEL VAN PARYS, Chevetogne 
 Coenobium and Hermitage
in the Byzantine Monastic Tradition 
KRITON CHRYSSOCHOIDIS, Athens 
Discussion
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THURSDAY 9 September
9:00 am
Coenobium and Hermitage in Ancient Rus’
(based on Lives of Saints, 15th-17th Centuries)
TAT’JANA KARBASOVA, Saint Petersburg
TAT’JANA RUDI, Saint Petersburg 
Coenobium and Hermitage
in the Western Monastic Tradition
ARMAND VEILLEUX, Scourmont 
Communion and Solitude
according to St Isaac the Syrian
SABINO CHIALÀ, Bose 
4:00 pm
Communion and Solitude
in Contemporary Greek Orthodox Theology
KONSTANTINOS AGORAS, Athens 
 Person and Communion
KONSTANTIN SIGOV, Kiev 
Discussion
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FRIDAY 10 September
9:00 am
Communion and Solitude
in the Experience of Fr Cleopa of Sihastria (1912-1998)
? SERAFIM OF GERMANY, Nürnberg 
The Challenge of Common Life in Optina Pustyn’
GLEB ZAPAL’SKIJ, Moscow 
 An Athonite Solitary in the Heart of the City:
Fr Porfyrios of Kafsokalyvia (1906-1991)
ATHANASIOS N. PAPATHANASSIOU, Athens 
4:00 pm
The Contemporary Monastic Experience
Life in Communion, Life in Solitude 
Moderator: GUIDO DOTTI, Bose 
? FEOGNOST OF SERGIEV POSAD
Holy Trinity-St Sergius Lavra, Sergiev Posad  
? NAZARIJ OF VYBORG
Holy Trinity - St Alexander Nevsky Lavra, Saint Petersburg 
Ig. DAMASKINOS (GAVALAS)
Monastery of the Prophet Elias, Santorini 
Ig. MAKRINA (ESKAF)
Panagia Monastery, Sayde 
M. ANNE-EMMANUELLE DEVÊCHE
Abbaye Notre-Dame de Bon-Secours, Blauvac 
P. GABRIEL BUNGE
Holy Cross Hermitage, Roveredo 
P. ANDREJ (?ILERDŽI?)
Holy Archangels Monastery, Kovilj 
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SATURDAY 11 September
9:00 am
Initiation to Ecclesial Communion Today
KIRILL HOVORUN, Kiev 
Communion and Solitude 
in the Contemporary World 
? KALLISTOS OF DIOKLEIAS, Oxford 
CONCLUSIONS
Conclusions of the Conference
ADALBERTO MAINARDI, Bose 
XVIII International Ecumenical Conference
on Orthodox spirituality