IRINA PAERT is an Associate Professor in the School of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Tartu. She specializes in Orthodox Church history and theology, with a focus on conciliarity, gender, and spirituality in Russia and the Baltic region. ANDREY SHISHKOV specializes in contemporary theology, ecclesiology, and political theology. He has held academic positions at the Saints Cyril and Methodius Institute for Post-Graduate Studies and the University of Tartu. He served as Secretary of the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church. ALISON R. KOLOSOVA is a Research Fellow in Church History at the University of Tartu. She has studied at Durham University and the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris. Her research focuses on Christian mission, intercultural theology, and Orthodox history in Russia’s Volga-Kama region.

• Notes on Contributors xiForeword xixAcknowledgments xxiiIntroduction 1I. The Orthodox Conciliar Tradition 111 The Conciliar Tradition in the Early Church and Byzantine Empire 13Michel Stavrou2 Conciliarity in Monasticism as Mutual Obedience 28Anna Briskina- Müller3 Conciliarity and Orthodox Choral Traditions 40Ivan MoodyPrecursors of the Conciliar Renaissance 514 "For It is a Sobor." The 1721 Reform of Peter the Great 53Olga Tsapina5 Orthodox Churches and Conciliarity in the Habsburg Empire 68David Heith- Stade and Thomas Mark Németh6 Conciliarity and the Orthodox Churches in the Ottoman Empire and Balkan National States in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries 82Paul Brusanowski7 The Break- up of Empires: Orthodox Nationalism, Autocephaly, and Conciliarity 95Ionut Biliuta8 Orthodoxy and Conciliarity in the Russian Empire, 1825–1916 111Alexey BeglovThe 20th Century Conciliar Renaissance 1259 The 1902 and 1904 Encyclicals of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Pan-Orthodox Conciliar Process: Overcoming National and Political Divisions, and Promoting Orthodox Unity 127Natallia Vasilevich10 The Council of the Orthodox Church in Russia, 1917–1918 141Aleksandr Kravetskii and Scott M. Kenworthy11 Gendering Conciliarity: Uncomfortable Historical Experience and Modern Gender Battles 155Nadezhda Beliakova12 Reviving Orthodox Conciliarity through the Holy and Great Council of Crete 2016 172Maxim Vasiljevc13 The Orthodox Diaspora, the Holy and Great Council of Crete, and the Search for Church Unity 190Dimitrios KeramidasII. The Theological Vision 20314 Aleksei Khomyakov, the Slavophiles, and the Origins of Sobornost 205Basil Lourié15 Sobornost in the Discourse of the Russian Church in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 219Paul Valliere16 Fr. Sergiy Bulgakov's Re- dimensioning of Conciliarity/Sobornost 230Manuel Sumares17 Nicholas Afanasiev: Conciliarity and the Eucharistic Assembly 245Anastacia Wooden18 The Question of Conciliarity in the Ecclesiology of John Zizioulas 257Demetrios Bathrellos19 Sabornost in Twentieth- Century Serbian Theology 270Vladimir Cvetkovic20 Open Sobornicity in Dumitru Stãniloae 282Viorel Coman21 Sobornost: Orthodox Perspectives in the British Isles 294Andrew Louth22 Catholicity in Modern Orthodox Ecclesiology 306Paul Ladouceur23 Egalitarian and Totalitarian Lines Within the Structure of Sobornost: From Khomyakov's Anti- Hierarchicalism to Karsavin's Hierarchical Soborny Personalities 318Dmitry Biriukov24 Sobornost: Political and Eschatological Dimensions 330Davor DzaltoContextual Approaches 34325 Three Orthodox Women theologians and their Approaches to Conciliarity 345Irina Paert26 Sobornost and Ecology 358Elizabeth Theokritoff27 Synodality and Mission in Late Modernity 371Athanasios N. Papathanasios28 Conciliarity and Paradigm Change in Orthodox Ecclesiology 384Andrey ShishkovIII. Local Conciliarities 39729 Conciliarity and Russian Orthodox Mission in the Late Imperial and Revolutionary Periods 399Alison Ruth Kolosova30 Eastern Orthodox Conciliarity in North America: Archbishop Tikhon Bellavin and the First North American Council of 1907 413Aram G. Sarkisian31 Conciliarity and Western European Orthodoxy in the Twentieth Century 425Sebastian Rimestad32 Sobornicity, Synodality, and Conciliarity in the Romanian Orthodox Church 436Cristian Sonea and Rãzvan Persa33 Conciliarity in Ukrainian Orthodoxy 449Nicholas Denysenko34 Orthodoxy and Synodality in Africa: The Chalcedonian Orthodox 462Evi Voulgaraki- Pissina35 Synodality and Conciliarity in the Life of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (Indian Orthodox Church) 479Jossi Jacob Ponodath36 The Inter- Council Assembly of the Russian Orthodox Church: An Advisory Board Under Patriarch Kirill 490Andrei V. PsarevConciliarity from Below 49937 Conciliarity from Below in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt and the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥǝdo Church in the Nineteenth–Twenty-First Centuries 501Ralph Lee38 The Russian Student Christian Movement as an Expression of Sobornost in the 1920s–1930s 513Ulyana Gutner39 The Russian Student Christian Movement and its Conciliar Practices After World War Two 523Cyrille Sollogoub40 Conciliarity and the Orthodox Youth Movement in the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch 531Elias El Halabi41 Digital Opportunities and Challenges to Conciliarity in the Orthodox Church 545Jacob LassinEcumenical Engagement 55742 The Moscow Council of 1917–1918, the Second Vatican Council, and Ongoing Reflection on Synodality in the Roman Catholic Church 559Peter De Mey43 Conciliarity in the Anglican Tradition 574Paul Avis44 Conciliarity in Eastern Orthodox– Catholic and Oriental Orthodox–Catholic Dialogue 586Johannes Oeldemann45 The Dialogue Between the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Eastern Orthodox Churches 603Christine ChaillotIndex 615

IRINA PAERT is an Associate Professor in the School of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Tartu. She specializes in Orthodox Church history and theology, with a focus on conciliarity, gender, and spirituality in Russia and the Baltic region. ANDREY SHISHKOV specializes in contemporary theology, ecclesiology, and political theology. He has held academic positions at the Saints Cyril and Methodius Institute for Post-Graduate Studies and the University of Tartu. He served as Secretary of the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church. ALISON R. KOLOSOVA is a Research Fellow in Church History at the University of Tartu. She has studied at Durham University and the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris. Her research focuses on Christian mission, intercultural theology, and Orthodox history in Russia’s Volga-Kama region.

• Notes on Contributors xiForeword xixAcknowledgments xxiiIntroduction 1I. The Orthodox Conciliar Tradition 111 The Conciliar Tradition in the Early Church and Byzantine Empire 13Michel Stavrou2 Conciliarity in Monasticism as Mutual Obedience 28Anna Briskina- Müller3 Conciliarity and Orthodox Choral Traditions 40Ivan MoodyPrecursors of the Conciliar Renaissance 514 "For It is a Sobor." The 1721 Reform of Peter the Great 53Olga Tsapina5 Orthodox Churches and Conciliarity in the Habsburg Empire 68David Heith- Stade and Thomas Mark Németh6 Conciliarity and the Orthodox Churches in the Ottoman Empire and Balkan National States in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries 82Paul Brusanowski7 The Break- up of Empires: Orthodox Nationalism, Autocephaly, and Conciliarity 95Ionut Biliuta8 Orthodoxy and Conciliarity in the Russian Empire, 1825–1916 111Alexey BeglovThe 20th Century Conciliar Renaissance 1259 The 1902 and 1904 Encyclicals of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Pan-Orthodox Conciliar Process: Overcoming National and Political Divisions, and Promoting Orthodox Unity 127Natallia Vasilevich10 The Council of the Orthodox Church in Russia, 1917–1918 141Aleksandr Kravetskii and Scott M. Kenworthy11 Gendering Conciliarity: Uncomfortable Historical Experience and Modern Gender Battles 155Nadezhda Beliakova12 Reviving Orthodox Conciliarity through the Holy and Great Council of Crete 2016 172Maxim Vasiljevc13 The Orthodox Diaspora, the Holy and Great Council of Crete, and the Search for Church Unity 190Dimitrios KeramidasII. The Theological Vision 20314 Aleksei Khomyakov, the Slavophiles, and the Origins of Sobornost 205Basil Lourié15 Sobornost in the Discourse of the Russian Church in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 219Paul Valliere16 Fr. Sergiy Bulgakov's Re- dimensioning of Conciliarity/Sobornost 230Manuel Sumares17 Nicholas Afanasiev: Conciliarity and the Eucharistic Assembly 245Anastacia Wooden18 The Question of Conciliarity in the Ecclesiology of John Zizioulas 257Demetrios Bathrellos19 Sabornost in Twentieth- Century Serbian Theology 270Vladimir Cvetkovic20 Open Sobornicity in Dumitru Stãniloae 282Viorel Coman21 Sobornost: Orthodox Perspectives in the British Isles 294Andrew Louth22 Catholicity in Modern Orthodox Ecclesiology 306Paul Ladouceur23 Egalitarian and Totalitarian Lines Within the Structure of Sobornost: From Khomyakov's Anti- Hierarchicalism to Karsavin's Hierarchical Soborny Personalities 318Dmitry Biriukov24 Sobornost: Political and Eschatological Dimensions 330Davor DzaltoContextual Approaches 34325 Three Orthodox Women theologians and their Approaches to Conciliarity 345Irina Paert26 Sobornost and Ecology 358Elizabeth Theokritoff27 Synodality and Mission in Late Modernity 371Athanasios N. Papathanasios28 Conciliarity and Paradigm Change in Orthodox Ecclesiology 384Andrey ShishkovIII. Local Conciliarities 39729 Conciliarity and Russian Orthodox Mission in the Late Imperial and Revolutionary Periods 399Alison Ruth Kolosova30 Eastern Orthodox Conciliarity in North America: Archbishop Tikhon Bellavin and the First North American Council of 1907 413Aram G. Sarkisian31 Conciliarity and Western European Orthodoxy in the Twentieth Century 425Sebastian Rimestad32 Sobornicity, Synodality, and Conciliarity in the Romanian Orthodox Church 436Cristian Sonea and Rãzvan Persa33 Conciliarity in Ukrainian Orthodoxy 449Nicholas Denysenko34 Orthodoxy and Synodality in Africa: The Chalcedonian Orthodox 462Evi Voulgaraki- Pissina35 Synodality and Conciliarity in the Life of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (Indian Orthodox Church) 479Jossi Jacob Ponodath36 The Inter- Council Assembly of the Russian Orthodox Church: An Advisory Board Under Patriarch Kirill 490Andrei V. PsarevConciliarity from Below 49937 Conciliarity from Below in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt and the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥǝdo Church in the Nineteenth–Twenty-First Centuries 501Ralph Lee38 The Russian Student Christian Movement as an Expression of Sobornost in the 1920s–1930s 513Ulyana Gutner39 The Russian Student Christian Movement and its Conciliar Practices After World War Two 523Cyrille Sollogoub40 Conciliarity and the Orthodox Youth Movement in the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch 531Elias El Halabi41 Digital Opportunities and Challenges to Conciliarity in the Orthodox Church 545Jacob LassinEcumenical Engagement 55742 The Moscow Council of 1917–1918, the Second Vatican Council, and Ongoing Reflection on Synodality in the Roman Catholic Church 559Peter De Mey43 Conciliarity in the Anglican Tradition 574Paul Avis44 Conciliarity in Eastern Orthodox– Catholic and Oriental Orthodox–Catholic Dialogue 586Johannes Oeldemann45 The Dialogue Between the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Eastern Orthodox Churches 603Christine ChaillotIndex 615

IRINA PAERT is an Associate Professor in the School of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Tartu. She specializes in Orthodox Church history and theology, with a focus on conciliarity, gender, and spirituality in Russia and the Baltic region. ANDREY SHISHKOV specializes in contemporary theology, ecclesiology, and political theology. He has held academic positions at the Saints Cyril and Methodius Institute for Post-Graduate Studies and the University of Tartu. He served as Secretary of the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church. ALISON R. KOLOSOVA is a Research Fellow in Church History at the University of Tartu. She has studied at Durham University and the St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris. Her research focuses on Christian mission, intercultural theology, and Orthodox history in Russia’s Volga-Kama region.

• Notes on Contributors xiForeword xixAcknowledgments xxiiIntroduction 1I. The Orthodox Conciliar Tradition 111 The Conciliar Tradition in the Early Church and Byzantine Empire 13Michel Stavrou2 Conciliarity in Monasticism as Mutual Obedience 28Anna Briskina- Müller3 Conciliarity and Orthodox Choral Traditions 40Ivan MoodyPrecursors of the Conciliar Renaissance 514 "For It is a Sobor." The 1721 Reform of Peter the Great 53Olga Tsapina5 Orthodox Churches and Conciliarity in the Habsburg Empire 68David Heith- Stade and Thomas Mark Németh6 Conciliarity and the Orthodox Churches in the Ottoman Empire and Balkan National States in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries 82Paul Brusanowski7 The Break- up of Empires: Orthodox Nationalism, Autocephaly, and Conciliarity 95Ionut Biliuta8 Orthodoxy and Conciliarity in the Russian Empire, 1825–1916 111Alexey BeglovThe 20th Century Conciliar Renaissance 1259 The 1902 and 1904 Encyclicals of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Pan-Orthodox Conciliar Process: Overcoming National and Political Divisions, and Promoting Orthodox Unity 127Natallia Vasilevich10 The Council of the Orthodox Church in Russia, 1917–1918 141Aleksandr Kravetskii and Scott M. Kenworthy11 Gendering Conciliarity: Uncomfortable Historical Experience and Modern Gender Battles 155Nadezhda Beliakova12 Reviving Orthodox Conciliarity through the Holy and Great Council of Crete 2016 172Maxim Vasiljevc13 The Orthodox Diaspora, the Holy and Great Council of Crete, and the Search for Church Unity 190Dimitrios KeramidasII. The Theological Vision 20314 Aleksei Khomyakov, the Slavophiles, and the Origins of Sobornost 205Basil Lourié15 Sobornost in the Discourse of the Russian Church in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century 219Paul Valliere16 Fr. Sergiy Bulgakov's Re- dimensioning of Conciliarity/Sobornost 230Manuel Sumares17 Nicholas Afanasiev: Conciliarity and the Eucharistic Assembly 245Anastacia Wooden18 The Question of Conciliarity in the Ecclesiology of John Zizioulas 257Demetrios Bathrellos19 Sabornost in Twentieth- Century Serbian Theology 270Vladimir Cvetkovic20 Open Sobornicity in Dumitru Stãniloae 282Viorel Coman21 Sobornost: Orthodox Perspectives in the British Isles 294Andrew Louth22 Catholicity in Modern Orthodox Ecclesiology 306Paul Ladouceur23 Egalitarian and Totalitarian Lines Within the Structure of Sobornost: From Khomyakov's Anti- Hierarchicalism to Karsavin's Hierarchical Soborny Personalities 318Dmitry Biriukov24 Sobornost: Political and Eschatological Dimensions 330Davor DzaltoContextual Approaches 34325 Three Orthodox Women theologians and their Approaches to Conciliarity 345Irina Paert26 Sobornost and Ecology 358Elizabeth Theokritoff27 Synodality and Mission in Late Modernity 371Athanasios N. Papathanasios28 Conciliarity and Paradigm Change in Orthodox Ecclesiology 384Andrey ShishkovIII. Local Conciliarities 39729 Conciliarity and Russian Orthodox Mission in the Late Imperial and Revolutionary Periods 399Alison Ruth Kolosova30 Eastern Orthodox Conciliarity in North America: Archbishop Tikhon Bellavin and the First North American Council of 1907 413Aram G. Sarkisian31 Conciliarity and Western European Orthodoxy in the Twentieth Century 425Sebastian Rimestad32 Sobornicity, Synodality, and Conciliarity in the Romanian Orthodox Church 436Cristian Sonea and Rãzvan Persa33 Conciliarity in Ukrainian Orthodoxy 449Nicholas Denysenko34 Orthodoxy and Synodality in Africa: The Chalcedonian Orthodox 462Evi Voulgaraki- Pissina35 Synodality and Conciliarity in the Life of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (Indian Orthodox Church) 479Jossi Jacob Ponodath36 The Inter- Council Assembly of the Russian Orthodox Church: An Advisory Board Under Patriarch Kirill 490Andrei V. PsarevConciliarity from Below 49937 Conciliarity from Below in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt and the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwaḥǝdo Church in the Nineteenth–Twenty-First Centuries 501Ralph Lee38 The Russian Student Christian Movement as an Expression of Sobornost in the 1920s–1930s 513Ulyana Gutner39 The Russian Student Christian Movement and its Conciliar Practices After World War Two 523Cyrille Sollogoub40 Conciliarity and the Orthodox Youth Movement in the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch 531Elias El Halabi41 Digital Opportunities and Challenges to Conciliarity in the Orthodox Church 545Jacob LassinEcumenical Engagement 55742 The Moscow Council of 1917–1918, the Second Vatican Council, and Ongoing Reflection on Synodality in the Roman Catholic Church 559Peter De Mey43 Conciliarity in the Anglican Tradition 574Paul Avis44 Conciliarity in Eastern Orthodox– Catholic and Oriental Orthodox–Catholic Dialogue 586Johannes Oeldemann45 The Dialogue Between the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Eastern Orthodox Churches 603Christine ChaillotIndex 615