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MEET OUR 75 SPEAKERS
Experts in Digital Media and Orthodox Pastoral Care
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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

In the last two decades, we as people have witnessed an unprecedented explosion as regards the evolution of electronic means of communication and provision of information. Local Orthodox Churches and Orthodox believers the world over have not been slow to make their presence felt in this novel scene, using the media as best they can in order to spread the word of God and the principles of genuine Christian spirituality…

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THEMATIC AREAS

When pastoral care is enacted via digital media it must be ‘alive’. It must offer ‘life’, not just texts or other things. How can this be achieved?… The inter-personal relationship between the pastor and each member of the flock has always been a nexus in the Church. Can this relationship be sustained in the digital environment?… What is the way the ‘message’ is sent and what is the way in which the ‘message’ is received? How far does it depend on the spiritual/ecclesiastical experience of the ‘user‘?…

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THE ORGANISERS

DMOPC15 is organised by www.pemptousia.gr, www.bogoslov.ru and www.myocn.net

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Speakers

Metropolitan Amfilohios of Kissamos and Selinon

Metropolitan Nektarios of Hong Kong

Metropolitan Pavlos of Glyfada

Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje, Ioannis

Metropolitan Savvas of Pittsburgh

Bishop Joseph of Patara

Bishop Romanos Daoud of Edessa

Metropolitan Porfirios of Zagreb

Metropolitan Nikiforos of Central Africa

Metropolitan Ignatios of Dimitrias

V. Rev. Archimandrite Jack Khalil

Elder Efraim, Abbot of Vatopaidi, The Holy Mountain

Elder Elissaios of Simonopetra, Holy Mount Athos

Archimandrite Anthimos Iliopoulos

Archimandrite Gabriel Vuckovic

Archimandrite Antonios Stylianakis

Archimandrite Dimitrios Handakas

Hieromonk Symeon Tomachinskiy

Hieromonk Ieremia, Monastery of Putna

Hieromonk Maximos Constas

Protopresbyter Christopher T. Metropulos

Protopresbyter Patrick B. O’Grady

Protopresbyter Michel Elias Najim

Protopresbyter Jivko Panev

Protopresbyter Pavel Velikanov

Protopresbyter Nicolae Dascălu

Protopresbyter Constantin Coman

Protopresbyter Georgios Kortas

Protopresbyter David Sharashanidze

Protopresbyter Georgios Georgakopoulos

Protopresbyter Vasileios Thermos

Protopresbyter Grigorios Stamkopoulos

Protopresbyter Georgios Schinas

Protopresbyter Konstantinos Stratigopoulos

Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis

Fr. Dimitrios Tsakas

Fr. Nektarios Mamalougos

Fr. Bassam Nassif

Fr. Arsenie, Putna Monastery

Deacon Juhana Sirén

Sister Theoktisti, the Holy Monastery of the Honourable Forerunner, Anatoli, Agia

Sister Sara Halabi, the Holy Monastery of the Annunciation, Aleppo, Syria

Major General Emmanuel Sfakianakis

Academician Sergey Khoruzhiy

Prof. Jean-Claude Larchet

Prof. Vladimir Legoyda

Prof. M. Claude Lopez-Ginisty

Dr. Symeon Norris J. Chumley

Ionel Ungureanu

Dr. Maria Alvanou

Dr. Konstantinos Zorbas

Dr. Michael Hjälm

Dr. Vaios Dafoulis

Dr. Anna Danilova

Dr. Dimitrios Karagiannis

Dr. Elena Zhosul

Dr. Dragan Karan

Dr. Nikolaos Koios

Dr. Athanasios Koliofoutis

Dr. Christos Nikolaou

Dr. Petros Panagiotopoulos

Dr. Konstantinos Siomos

Jarosław (Jarek) Charkiewicz

Olga Bogdanova

Yuri Grymov

Nikos Gouraros

Bernard Le Caro

Klaus Kenneth

Dionysis Makris

Natalya Loseva

Julia Pokrovskaya

Oleg Pokrovskiy

Aimilios Polygenis

Dimitrios Rizoulis

Georgios Theoharis

Petr Trenin-Strausov

Panagiotis Tsangaris

Sotiris Tzifas

Program

9 May 2015.
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Day 1
May 07, 2015
Day 2
May 08, 2015
Day 3
May 09, 2015
Day 4
May 10, 2015
8:00 - 8:50

Registration

8:50 - 9:00
Nikos Gouraros

Welcome – Brief instructions concerning the day’s program

Nikos Gouraros
08:59

Session Α1. Co-ordinator: Bishop Joseph of Patara

9:00 - 9:15
Sister Sara Halabi, the Holy Monastery of the Annunciation, Aleppo, Syria

Decoding the signs of our times

9:15 - 9:30
Protopresbyter Constantin Coman

An attempt at a niptic/philokalic approach to the Internet

9:30 - 9:45
Protopresbyter David Sharashanidze

The era of new media technologies and its challenges

9:45 - 10:00
Protopresbyter Patrick B. O’Grady

Virtual reality and reality of virtue: Ethics of internet-based relationships informed by St Maximos the Confessor’s doctrine of prosopon and logoi of creatures

10:00 - 10:15
Bishop Joseph of Patara
Protopresbyter Patrick B. O’Grady
Protopresbyter Constantin Coman
Protopresbyter David Sharashanidze
Sister Sara Halabi, the Holy Monastery of the Annunciation, Aleppo, Syria

Questions-Discussion (A1)

10:14

Session A2. Co-ordinator: Deacon Juhana Sirén

10:15 - 10:30
Dr. Anna Danilova

Addressing those outside the Church: pitfalls, problems and probable solutions. The experience of the “Pravmir” mission web-page

10:30 - 10:45
Fr. Bassam Nassif

Discernment: Spiritual Eyeglasses for Web Surfers

10:45 - 11:00
Yuri Grymov

The “Rublev” orthodox digital library project. How the internet could offer spiritual benefits. New technologies in the Orthodox faith.

11:00 - 11:15
Dr. Dimitrios Karagiannis

When the Internet intrudes as a threat to friendly relations

11:15 - 11:30
Fr. Bassam Nassif
Deacon Juhana Sirén
Prof. Jean-Claude Larchet
Dr. Anna Danilova
Dr. Dimitrios Karagiannis
Yuri Grymov

Questions-Discussion (A2)

11:30 - 12:00

BREAK

11:59

Session Α3. Co-ordinator: Prof. Jean-Claude Larchet

12:00 - 12:15
Bishop Joseph of Patara

Digital ‘Word’: a reflection on evangelism in the virtual age

12:15 - 12:30
Protopresbyter Jivko Panev

What are the positions of the Orthodox Church in a “Modern World”?

12:30 - 12:45
Dr. Elena Zhosul

In the realm of digital media: the loss of consciousness as a threat to the Christian worldview

12:45 - 13:00
Protopresbyter Christopher T. Metropulos

Digital Media – the Great Commission. Can the two collaborate?

13:00 - 13:15
Sister Theoktisti, the Holy Monastery of the Honourable Forerunner, Anatoli, Agia

Mission in the digital world, highlights of our experience – Forerunner’s Holy Monastery in Anatoli, Agia

13:15 - 13:30
Oleg Pokrovskiy

Crowd funding in the Orthodox media: myths and reality

13:30 - 13:45
Bishop Joseph of Patara
Protopresbyter Christopher T. Metropulos
Protopresbyter Jivko Panev
Sister Theoktisti, the Holy Monastery of the Honourable Forerunner, Anatoli, Agia
Dr. Elena Zhosul
Oleg Pokrovskiy

Questions-Discussion (A3)

14:00 - 15:00

LUNCH

15:29

Session Α4. Co-ordinator: Bishop Romanos Daoud of Edessa

15:30 - 15:45
Natalya Loseva

Orthodoxy on social media: speak and do no harm

15:45 - 16:00
Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis

The Role of Social Networks in the Christian Life

16:00 - 16:15
Metropolitan Nektarios of Hong Kong

Enlisting Digital Media into Pastoral Care in the Far East

16:15 - 16:30
Klaus Kenneth

From the digital valley of hunger to the “Bread of Life”

16:30 - 16:45
Metropolitan Nektarios of Hong Kong
Bishop Romanos Daoud of Edessa
Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis
Klaus Kenneth
Natalya Loseva

Questions-Discussion (A4)

16:44

Session A5. Co-ordinator: Protopresbyter Jivko Panev

16:45 - 17:00
Prof. Vladimir Legoyda

Technology and religious life: is heaven getting closer?

17:00 - 17:15
Academician Sergey Khoruzhiy

The Virtuality of communication: anthropological threats and the struggle against them

17:15 - 17:30
Dr. Symeon Norris J. Chumley

Old wine in new wineskins: digital multidimensional media as New Church?

17:30 - 17:45
Metropolitan Savvas of Pittsburgh

“Through a Glass, Darkly”: Pastoral Challenges in an Age of Social Media (SKYPE call)

17:45 - 18:00
Ionel Ungureanu

The main reason for ecclesiastical journalism, the quest, its starting-points and the methodological consequences of this quest.

18:00 - 18:15
Metropolitan Savvas of Pittsburgh
Protopresbyter Jivko Panev
Academician Sergey Khoruzhiy
Prof. Vladimir Legoyda
Dr. Symeon Norris J. Chumley
Ionel Ungureanu

Questions-Discussion (A5)

18:15 - 19:00

REST BREAK

Metropolitan Amfilohios of Kissamos and Selinon
19:00 - 21:00

OFFICIAL OPENING

- Message of His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomew by His representative, Metropolitan Amfilohios of Kissamos and Selinon



- Welcoming Speeches - Addresses by Primates of Churches

20:10 - 20:19
Elder Elissaios of Simonopetra, Holy Mount Athos

Internet and spiritual life (video)

20:20 - 20:40
Dr. Konstantinos Zorbas

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

20:40 - 21:00
Elder Efraim, Abbot of Vatopaidi, The Holy Mountain

Dissemination of the Word of God via the Internet

21:00 - 21:30

TREAT

6:30 - 8:30

MATINS – DIVINE LITURGY on the Feast of Saint John the Theologian – Chapel of Saint George Kavouriou. The Liturgy will be celebrated by Elder Efraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi and the “Tropos” Byzantine choir will sing, conducted by Konstantinos Angelidis.

8:50 - 9:00

Brief instructions concerning the day’s program

08:59

Session Β1. Co-ordinator: Fr. Nektarios Mamalougos

9:00 - 9:15
Protopresbyter Vasileios Thermos

Digital Technology and Cyberspace: a further test of the person (Videotaped Recording)

9:15 - 9:30
Prof. Jean-Claude Larchet

Ethical and spiritual issues related to the use of pseudonyms in Orthodox Internet forums

9:30 - 9:45
Archimandrite Antonios Stylianakis

Grains of Orthodox pastoral experience from two decades on the Internet

9:45 - 10:00
Olga Bogdanova

The ‘Question to the Priest’ as a kind of journalistic discourse and a type of communication on the Internet

10:00 - 10:15
Metropolitan Ignatios of Dimitrias

Digital libraries as spiritual heritage’s alternatives: the case of Theological Studies Academy’s (Volos) Digital Library

10:15 - 10:30
Metropolitan Ignatios of Dimitrias
Archimandrite Antonios Stylianakis
Protopresbyter Vasileios Thermos
Fr. Nektarios Mamalougos
Prof. Jean-Claude Larchet
Olga Bogdanova

Questions-Discussion (B1)

10:29

Session Β2. Co-ordinator: Prof. Vladimir Legoyda

10:30 - 10:45
V. Rev. Archimandrite Jack Khalil

Spreading theology through e-learning: the experience of Balamand University

10:45 - 11:00
Protopresbyter Michel Elias Najim

Pan-Orthodox Internet Study Programs

11:00 - 11:15
V. Rev. Archimandrite Jack Khalil
Protopresbyter Michel Elias Najim
Prof. Vladimir Legoyda

Questions-Discussion (B2)

11:15 - 11:45

BREAK

11:45 - 12:45
Archimandrite Anthimos Iliopoulos
Archimandrite Gabriel Vuckovic
Protopresbyter Georgios Georgakopoulos
Protopresbyter Georgios Schinas
Protopresbyter Konstantinos Stratigopoulos
Fr. Nektarios Mamalougos

Panel Discussion: The Relationships between User and Pastor – The Implications of Internet Discourse

12:43

Co-ordinator: Archimandrite Anthimos Iliopoulos

12:44

Session Β3. Co-ordinator: Hieromonk Ieremia, Putna Monastery

12:45 - 13:00
Dr. Michael Hjälm

The differentiation between communicative action, ritual action practice and virtual communications as a foundation for a pastoral approach to the Internet and Digital Media

13:00 - 13:15
Dr. Petros Panagiotopoulos

Opportunities for ecclesiastical intervention in cyberspace to preserve the authentic Orthodox ethos

13:15 - 13:30
Dr. Dragan Karan

The pastoral care of the Church as an expression of communion in Christ

13:30 - 13:45
Dr. Christos Nikolaou

Spreading the discourse of catechism in spoken form on the internet (as .mp3 speech files). Experience from the running of the “Pantocrator” web site

13:45 - 14:00
Fr. Arsenie, Putna Monastery
Dr. Dragan Karan
Dr. Christos Nikolaou
Dr. Petros Panagiotopoulos

Questions-Discussion (B3)

14:00 - 15:00

LUNCH

15:29

Session Β4. Co-ordinator: Dr. Symeon-Norris J. Chumley

15:30 - 15:45
Protopresbyter Georgios Kortas

The responsibility of the shepherd in the face of Social Media Networks

15:45 - 16:00
Prof. M. Claude Lopez-Ginisty

An Orthodox service blog

16:00 - 16:15
Dr. Nikolaos Koios
Nikos Gouraros

Pemptousia: A lifeline on the Internet

16:15 - 16:30
Hieromonk Ieremia, Monastery of Putna
Fr. Arsenie, Putna Monastery

The presence of Putna monastery in the digital world: an attempt to communicate its ethos

16:30 - 16:45
Hieromonk Ieremia, Monastery of Putna
Protopresbyter Georgios Kortas
Fr. Arsenie, Putna Monastery
Prof. M. Claude Lopez-Ginisty
Dr. Symeon Norris J. Chumley
Dr. Nikolaos Koios
Nikos Gouraros

Questions-Discussion (B4)

16:45 - 17:15

BREAK – TREAT

17:14

Session Β5. Co-ordinator: Protopresbyter Michel Elias Najim

17:15 - 17:30
Jarosław (Jarek) Charkiewicz

Past and present in the presence of the Polish Orthodox Church in the Internet; ideas and perspectives

17:30 - 17:45
Bishop Romanos Daoud of Edessa

The role of the media in contemporary pastoral care and missionary work- the experience of Latin America

17:45 - 18:00
Deacon Juhana Sirén

Reaching to the Cloud – Digital Media in a Finnish Orthodox Context

18:00 - 18:15
Metropolitan Nikiforos of Central Africa

e-Learning at Orthodox Mission’s Higher Educational Institutions; The Case of Orthodox Theological Faculty at Congo (Discussion)

18:15 - 18:30
Dr. Maria Alvanou

Promotion of pastoral values through the Internet- digital pastoral care as a tool for deradicalization and social peace

18:30 - 18:45
Bishop Romanos Daoud of Edessa
Metropolitan Nikiforos of Central Africa
Protopresbyter Michel Elias Najim
Deacon Juhana Sirén
Dr. Maria Alvanou
Jarosław (Jarek) Charkiewicz

Questions-Discussion (B5)

18:45 - 19:30
Archimandrite Dimitrios Handakas
Protopresbyter Grigorios Stamkopoulos
Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis
Dr. Nikolaos Koios
Dr. Athanasios Koliofoutis
Panagiotis Tsangaris

PANEL DISCUSSION: Pastoral Care, Theology, Divine Worship “via” the Internet. Reality, problems and perspectives

08:59

Session C1. Co-ordinator: Protopresbyter Nicolae Dascălu

9:00 - 9:15
Hieromonk Maximos Constas

“Watch then thyself”(Πρόσεχε σεαυτῷ): Spiritual Practice and Digital Culture

9:15 - 9:30
Petr Trenin-Strausov

3 topics for non-church young people: an attempt to grab the attention

9:30 - 9:45
Bernard Le Caro

Publishing information from the orthodox world on the net : be responsible!

9:45 - 10:00
Hieromonk Maximos Constas
Protopresbyter Nicolae Dascălu
Bernard Le Caro
Petr Trenin-Strausov

Questions-Discussion (C1)

9:59

Session C2. Co-ordinator: Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis

10:00 - 10:15
Archimandrite Gabriel Vuckovic

The Use of the Internet in Pastoral Care

10:15 - 10:30
Protopresbyter Pavel Velikanov

Pan-ecclesiastical discussion on the web-page: success or disappointment?

10:30 - 10:45
Protopresbyter Nicolae Dascălu

From the classical media to the digital media in the mission of the Church

10:45 - 11:00
Archimandrite Gabriel Vuckovic
Protopresbyter Pavel Velikanov
Protopresbyter Nicolae Dascălu
Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis

Questions-Discussion (C2)

11:00 - 11:30

BREAK

11:30 - 12:00
Protopresbyter Georgios Georgakopoulos
Dionysis Makris
Julia Pokrovskaya
Aimilios Polygenis
Dimitrios Rizoulis
Georgios Theoharis

PANEL DISCUSSION: The Ecclesiastical News from past to present. Special perspectives and characteristics in the Internet era.

11:31

Co-ordinator: Protopresbyter Georgios Georgakopoulos

11:59

Session C3. Co-ordinator: Protopresbyter Pavel Velikanov

12:15 - 12:30
Hieromonk Symeon Tomachinskiy

The virtue of Internet-abstinence

12:30 - 12:45
Dr. Konstantinos Siomos

Pathological on-line behaviors, recent scientific Greek and International data

12:45 - 13:00
Sotiris Tzifas

Safe Internet use and protection against threats

13:00 - 13:15
Major General Emmanuel Sfakianakis

High-risk online behaviors

13:15 - 13:30
Hieromonk Symeon Tomachinskiy
Protopresbyter Pavel Velikanov
Major General Emmanuel Sfakianakis
Dr. Konstantinos Siomos
Sotiris Tzifas

Questions-Discussion (C3)

13:30 - 14:00
Protopresbyter Christopher T. Metropulos
Protopresbyter Jivko Panev
Protopresbyter Pavel Velikanov
Protopresbyter Constantin Coman
Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis

Final Discussion by the Scientific Committee of the Conference

13:31

Discussion Co-ordinator: Protopresbyter Vasileios Kalliakmanis

14:00 - 15:00

LUNCH

15:00 - 17:00

TOUR OF ATHENS

19:00 - 19:30
Dr. Petros Panagiotopoulos

CONFERENCE CONCLUSIONS

19:30 - 19:45
Metropolitan Pavlos of Glyfada

His Eminence Metropolitan Pavlos of Glyfada presents His Eminence Ioannis, Archbishop of Ochrid and Metropolitan of Skopje

19:45 - 20:05
Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje, Ioannis

Speech by His Eminence Ioannis, Archbishop of Ochrid and Metropolitan of Skopje

20:15 - 21:00

“BETWEEN TWO WORLDS”. Screening the Documentary about the Theological School of Halki

21:00 - 21:30

TREAT

7:00 - 11:00

Hierarchical Concelebration of the Divine Liturgy – Sunday of the Samaritan Woman. Church of Panagia Faneromeni, Vouliagmeni. The Greek Byzantine Choir, under the direction of Georgios Konstantinou, will sing.

Location

DIVANI APOLLON PALACE & THALASSO
Agiou Nikolaou 10, Vouliagmeni 166 71, Athens, Greece
Contact the Hotel for special prices for the DMOPC15 Conference
+30 210 891 1100info@divaniapollon.gr

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