Pro Oriente

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Pro Oriente Foundation
legal form Corporation under public law
founding November 21, 1964 in Vienna
founder Franz Cardinal König
Seat Vienna
motto Building bridges
main emphasis Conflict resolution , promotion of dialogue between the churches
Chair President Ambassador i. R. Alfons M. Kloss
Managing directors Secretary General Bernd Mussinghoff
Employees 8th
Website www.pro-oriente.at
Arsenios Kardamakis , Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Austria (center) with Philipp Harnoncourt , Roman Catholic priest and member of the board of the ecumenical Pro Oriente foundation (right) and the Greek Orthodox theologian Grigorios Larentzakis (left), 2012

Pro Oriente is a church foundation with legal personality for the state sector with its seat in Vienna . The purpose of the foundation is to resolve conflicts and promote dialogue between churches from Eastern and Western traditions .

activity

The foundation works at the level of the unofficial dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Churches . She tries to offer protected spaces for exchange and thereby enable mutual understanding. Their work consists of exchange programs, research projects, conferences, symposia and public lectures, as well as the publication of scientific publications. The foundation is financed by donations and private and public subsidies.

The former Austrian Ambassador to the Holy See , Alfons M. Kloss , has been President of the Foundation since 2017 .

history

The foundation was established in 1964 by Cardinal Franz König . The impetus for the foundation was the Second Vatican Council , which, with its ecumenism decree “ Unitatis redintegratio ”, called for the intensification of the dialogue between the Christian churches and denominations.

The so-called “Vienna Christological Formula” is one of the most important results of the Foundation's work . It was decided in Vienna in 1971 on the basis of a proposal by the then General Bishop of the Coptic Church , Schenudah (who was elected Pope Shenudah III shortly afterwards ). The formula is:

“We believe that our God and Savior, Jesus Christ, is God's incarnate Son; perfect in his divinity and perfect in his humanity. His deity was not separated from his humanity for a single moment, not a moment. His humanity is one with his deity, without mixing, without mixing, without division, without separation. "

As a common reinterpretation of the Christology of the Council of Chalcedony , this formula was found in September 1971 at the first of the "Lainzer Consultations" organized by Pro Oriente between Roman Catholic and ancient Oriental theologians. After the conference location in Vienna's Lainz district , it is sometimes referred to as the “Lainzer Formula”.

Footnotes

  1. “Cardinal König Prize” in the spirit of solidarity with the Copts , accessed on November 3, 2014.
  2. 40 years of Pope Schenuda III. , accessed November 3, 2014.
  3. Pro Oriente: Glossary , accessed on November 3, 2014.

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