The premier conference about East-West Church relations, The Orientale Lumen XXV Conference will be held as a “virtual” conference in June 2021 on the theme of “Liturgy and Scripture: Praying the Word of God.”  Speakers will pre-record their lectures for viewing on YouTube in early June, and a 3-hour live, interactive panel discussion will be held on Tuesday, June 22 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm EDT via Zoom video conference.  We will also offer archive lectures about Liturgy from OLTV by Metropolitan Kallistos and the late Archimandrite Robert Taft, SJ. This is available to WTC students as a 1 credit course offered through the Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh.

For details on cost and to register, visit the Orientale Lumen website.

Speakers include:

Archbishop Job of Telmessos
Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Geneva, Switzerland

Father Andrew Summerson
Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma, Whiting, IN

Father Ted Pulcini
Antiochian Orthodox Church, Chambersburg, PA

Dr. Sr. Vassa Larin
Host of “Coffee with Sister Vassa”, Vienna, Austria

Father Marco Benini
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC

Dr. Daniel Stevens, Director of the Scholars Initiative
Brian Hyland, Curator of Latin and Greek Manuscripts
Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC

Additional videos on Liturgy by
Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia
Archimandrite Robert Taft, SJ

Bishop John Michael Botean, Moderator
Romanian Catholic Diocese of St. George, Canton, OH

For details on cost and to register, visit the Orientale Lumen website.