John Zizioulas - Being as Communion: Personhood and Being 🤲🏾

Dr. Donald Wallenfang, OCDS offers commentary on Greek Orthodox Patriarch John Zizioulas' 1997 book Being as Communion. This classic text in ecclesiology is valuable in its ecumenical reach, and yet shows the important differences between Catholic and Orthodox ecclesiologies so as to enrich both. Topics include church authority, apostolic succession, the Eucharist, the missionary activity of the church, personhood, metaphysics, and the existential crisis of faith.
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[@RomualdianHermitage]

2:07 yes he is Metropolitan not a Patriarch. Metropolitan can be equated with an Archbishop. Although the Greek usage differs from the Slavic usage either way such are Archbishops. Ziziuolas has since reposed in the Lord. I’m enjoying these summaries of his book.

[@myinteriorcastle313]

Thank you for sharing this important point of clarification.

[@nguraboitlung9817]

Thank you for this valuable discussion on Metropolitan John. Just a slight correction to his position/ title: The late John Zizoulas was the Metropolitan (a senior bishop of a large or renouned city/ region) of the ancient biblical see of Pergamon in Turkey (NT Asia Minor) under the Church of Constantinople (or the Ecumenical Patriarchate). He was correctly titled in Greek "Geron/ Elder Metropolitan of Pergamon" and was given prominent position in the order of hierarchy of the Church of Constantinople, due to his enormous scholarchip and influence in the development of the theology of the Church Fathers for today's context. But Zizoulas is not a Patriarch. A Patriarch is the Head or Primate (Protos/ First in Greek) of a local Orthodox Church who leads the Synod of Bishops of that local Church and speaks on her behalf. Orthodox Patriarchs & Primates according to the Orthodox canonical diptychs (canonical order of eminence) are: 1) The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (who is the Protos/ First among the Patriarchs & Primates in world Orthodoxy); 2) The Pope & Patriarch of Alexandria; 3) The Patriarch of Antioch; 4) The Patriarch of Jerusalem; 5) The Patriarch of Moscow & Russia; 6) The Patriarch of Serbia; 7) The Patriarch of Romania; 8) The Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia; 9) The Patriarch of Bulgaria; 10) The Archbishop of Cyprus; 11) The Archbishop of Athens; 12) The Metropolitan of Poland; 13) The Archbishop of Albania; 14) The Metropolitan of Czech Lands & Slovakia; 15) The Metropolitan of Kyiv and Ukraine.

[@myinteriorcastle313]

Thank you for adding this important point of clarification. Very helpful.