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  • WEA Secretary General Expresses Solidarity with Eastern Orthodox Church, Laments Reconversion of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul

    WEA Secretary General Expresses Solidarity with Eastern Orthodox Church, Laments Reconversion of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul

    For 175 years, standing in solidarity with Christians who are facing discrimination and persecution has been at the heart of the mission of the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA). In continuation of this tradition, WEA Secretary General Bishop Dr Thomas Schirrmacher joined Orthodox and other church leaders lamenting the reconversion of the Hagia Sophia Cathedral in Istanbul into a mosque, when he visited Washington, DC earlier this year.

    27. November 2021 / Evangelicals, Ecumenism, Orthodox Churches, ProMundis Blog

     
  • Istanbul from above

    Istanbul from above

    I do not know how often I did fly to Istanbul or had a stop over in Istanbul. But I never succeeded to make good photos out of the plane. Most times there were clouds or smog, if the sight was good, I did sit on the wrong side or was sleeping like a baby.

    29. October 2018 / ProMundis Blog

     
  • Bishop Thomas Schirrmacher, WEA Associate Secretary General for Theological Concerns, introduces Bishop Nik Nedelchev to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I © BQ/Warnecke

    WEA introduces new ambassador to the Ecumenical Patriarch and the Orthodox Church community

    On the occasion of a meeting of the heads of all major churches and confessions of Turkey at the Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul, the Associate Secretary General Bishop Thomas Schirrmacher introduced Dr Nikolay (Nik) Nedelchev personally to Bartholomew I, who as Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch is the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide.

    20. March 2018 / Special topics ecumenical relations, Evangelicals, Orthodox Churches, ProMundis Blog

     
  • Schirrmacher presents the Patriarch with writings on religious freedom, among them the ‘International Journal for Religious Freedom’

    Official inaugural visit to the Ecumenical Patriarch

    The newly elected Chairman of the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance, Professor Thomas Schirrmacher, has made his first official inaugural visit, which led him to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, in the form of a courtesy call. The one-hour audience in the Patriarch’s study was followed by lunch together.

    1. March 2010 / Evangelicals, Orthodox Churches

     
 
 
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About meArchbishop Prof. Dr. theol. Dr. phil. Thomas Paul Schirrmacher, PhD, DD, (born 1960) is since 2021 Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, which represents Protestant churches belonging to 143 National Evangelical Alliances with altogether 600 million members. He is also President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights. Read more …

 

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