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πνευµατικάς καί κυριαρχικάς Θερµοπύλας» [Le Patriarche Œcuménique au Patriarche de
Jérusalem : Ensemble nous gardons les Thermopyles spirituelles et souveraines »
http://www.amen.gr/article18151 (paragraphe 4).
3 «Déclaration commune signée au Vatican par le Pape Jean-Paul II et le Patriarche Bartholomée
Ier, 29 juin 1995. Episkepsis 520 (31-7-1995), p. 20.
4 Adresse à la délégation papale conduite par le Cardinal William Keeler lors de la fête patronale
du Trône de Constantinople (1998), in Episkepsis, no. 563 (31-11-1998)

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ecumenical-patriarch-hah-bartholomew
6 « Called to be the One Church » §6 et 7i i « in God, in your Grace… » Official Report of the
Ninth Assembly of the World Council of Churches, Luis N. Rivera-Pagan, WCC Publications,
Geneva 2007, p.257.
7 “Orthodox ecclesiology and the Ecumenical movement” Sourozh Diocesan Magazine
(England) vol. 21 (August1985), p. 16 et suite.
8 “L’Église et l’Eschaton », métropole de Demetrias, Académie d’études théologiques, Athènes,
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9 Extrait du message patriarcal de Noël, in Archimandrite Athanasios J. Vassilopoulos, « Du
voyage de l’amour », Athènes 1968, p. 87.
10 Allocution d’accueil de Sa Toute-Sainteté le Patriarche œcuménique au Patriarche de Bulgarie
Néophyte, dans la salle du Trône (Constantinople, 20 septembre 2013, in
http://www.ecpatr.org/docdisplay.php?lang=gr&id=1757&tla=gr : « Nous espérons, Votre
Béatitude, que sous votre sage direction, la Sainte Église orthodoxe de Bulgarie, participera selon la
tradition et la décision des réunions panorthodoxes, aux dialogues intra-orthodoxes et
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11 Psaume 50, 12. Voir aussi Jacques 5,12 : « Que votre oui soit oui, et que votre non soit non,
afin que vous ne tombiez pas sous le jugement ».
12 Cf. 7ème canon du IIIème Concile œcuménique.
13 Matth. XVI, 18
14 St. Basile le Grand, Commentaire sur le Psaume 45, 5, PG 29B, 424B, C.
15 St. Grégoire le Théologien, Homélie 4 (Contre l’empereur Julien), PG 35, 588C-589A.
16 Le texte de St Jean Chrysostome se trouve dans les œuvres de St Jean Damascène, Parallèles
sacrés, PG 95, 1436A.
17 I Tim. 3,15.