Ecumenical MovementPublished on 03.02.2023

"What future for the ecumenical movement?" The former general secretary of the WCC, Fr Ioan Sauca, evaluates his mission


On 23 February 2023 at 17h15, in the Aula Magna of the University of Fribourg, the former general secretary of the World Council of Churches, Fr Ioan Sauca, will speak. He evaluates his mission by asking: "What future for the Ecumenical Movement?"

The event is open to the public and will also be livestreamed.

Addresses of greeting will be given (online) by: 

  • P. Prof. Dr Jerry Pillay, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Geneva
  • H.E. Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Christian Unity, Vatican
  • H.E. Metropolitan Job Getcha, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Metropolitan of Pisidia

The conference is followed by witnesses of students of the Ecumenical Institute in Bossey and of the Faculty of Theology in Fribourg: Our commitment to the Ecumenical Mouvement.

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