Message from Bartholomeos I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople

Patriarca Ecumenico di Costantinopoli
Bartholomeos I
15th International Ecumenical Conference
The Transfiguration of the Lord, therefore, can constitute for all a beginning so that we transform

The Very Reverend Father Enzo Bianchi,
Prior of the Monastic Community of Bose,
The Grace, Peace and Mercy of our Saviour Jesus Christ!

It is with great paternal joy that we were informed of the organization of the XV Conference which will be held at Bose in the month of September, on the subject of the Transfiguration of our Saviour in Orthodox spiritual tradition. It is a continuation of the long and arduous endeavour which your dearest Community has undertaken to examine in depth various subjects of Orthodox spirituality and to make use of the treasures of this tradition, with the goal of mutual edification and spiritual profit.

For this reason, through the representative of our Mediocrity and of our most Holy Church of Constantinople, the Very Reverend brother Metropolitan Kallistos of Diokleia, we hail the start of this Conference praying that the Transifgured Lord may bestow upon it His blessing and may lead it to a good conclusion and may grant to all the distinguished participants the plenitude of His Light, without which it is impossible to comprehend an event like His Transfiguration, which is divine and strikes fear.