Archbishop Agostino Marchetto appointed Cardinal

Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, an internationally renowned expert on Vatican II whom he personally holds in high esteem and whom he even considers the "più̀ grande ermeneuta del Concilio", as a cardinal in the consistory of 30 September. In addition to his long career as a Vatican diplomat, the 83-year-old cardinal has been intensively involved in the reception of Vatican II and has always spoken out trenchantly in numerous publications, advocating an interpretation that Pope Benedict XVI. in his famous address to the Curia of 22 December 2005 expressed, that a "hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture must be contrasted with a hermeneutic of reform, of the renewal of the Church as a subject, which the Lord has given us, while preserving continuity". Marchetto is deeply committed to the 'Konziliengeschichte' project and has repeatedly presented papers at the Society for the Study of Conciliar History conferences since 2000. Most recently, in 2018, he spoke on "La minoranza al Vaticano II (1962-1965) secondo il 'Diario' del suo Segretario Generale, Pericle Felici" at the simposio "Council and Minority"  held at the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce and Campo Santo Teutonico.


New Publications

Johannes Helmrath, Wege der Konzilsforschung. Studien zur Geschichte des Konzils von Basel (1431–1449) und anderer Konzilien. Ausgewählte Aufsätze Band 2, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2022. XII + 844 pp.

 

After the first volume of Johannes Helmrath's selected essays already appeared in 2013 and collected "Wege des Humanismus", the present volume unites studies by the author on the history of councils. 
Councils, from Nicaia to Vatican II, are collegially organised legislative bodies of the Church and at the same time, as meeting places of spiritual and secular elites, key historical moments of a special kind. The present volume contains selected studies by Helmrath on historical council research. The contributions have been revised, and supplements and an index have been added. The thematic focus is on the fascinating and overlong Council of Basel (1431-1449), the last of the so-called reform councils, flanked by studies on the IV Lateranum and the Councils of Constance (1414-1418) and Ferrara-Florence-Rome (1438-1445). Problems of organisation and communication, prosopography, reform and theology, comparability with secular assemblies, intellectual hub function etc. are analysed. In diachronic longitudinal section, the liturgy of the Gospel Book, church reform and the choice of location of councils are examined (from the publisher's information).


Simposium about Nicaea (325) - Council of Ecumenism?

Nizäa (325) – Konzil der Ökumene?

Die Rezeption der „Großen Synode“ in Geschichte und Gegenwart

Symposion, Bamberg, 25.–26. September 2023

Hörsaal U2/01.33 – An der Universität 2 – 96047 Bamberg

Programm

Montag, 25.09.2023

08:30 Hl. Messe in St. Jakob, Jakobsplatz, Bamberg (fakultativ)

09:30 – 09:45 Veranstalter: Eröffnung – Einführung

09:45 – 10:15 Thomas GRAUMANN (Cambridge): Die Rezeption von Nizäa in Geschichtsschreibung und kirchlicher Erinnerung der Spätantike

10:15 – 10:45 Evangelos CHRYSOS (Athen): Participants at the Council of Nicaea I from beyond the borders of the Roman Empire

Pause

11:00– 11:30 Josef RIST (Bochum): Bischof Ossius von Cordoba – eine andere Perspektive auf das Konzil von Nizäa und seine Rezeption

11:30 – 12:00 Hanns Christof BRENNECKE (Erlangen-Nürnberg): Die Rezeption der Beschlüsse von Nicaea im weiteren 4. Jh. sowohl im griechischen Osten wie lateinischen Westen

12:00 – 12:30

Diskussion

Mittagspause

14:15 – 14:45 Matthias SIMPERL (Augsburg): Eustathianische Reaktionen auf den „Tomus ad Antiochenos“. Zur Rezeption des nizänischen Bekenntnisses im Antiochia der 360er Jahre

14:45 – 15:15 Giulio MASPERO (Rom): From Nicea I to Nicea II: Chrêsis in first Ecumenical Council and Chrêsis of the first Ecumenical Council

Pause

15:30 – 16:00 Winfried BÜTTNER (Bamberg): Ephräm der Syrer und der Arianismus

16:00 – 16:30 Petar VRANKIC (Augsburg): Die Beschlüsse von Nizäa und die Formeln der sirmischen Synoden

16:30 – 17:00 Alberto FERREIRO (Seattle, WA): The Reception and Diffusion of the Creed and the Filioque Before and After the Third Council of Toledo (589) in Hispania

17:00 Diskussion

Dienstag, 26.09.2023

08:30 Hl. Messe in der Kirche St. Jakob, Jakobsplatz, Bamberg (fakultativ)

9:30 Grußwort S.E. Erzbischof em. Dr. Ludwig SCHICK

09:45 – 10:15 Johann Anton ZIEME (Halle-Wittenberg): Ἡ θαυμάσια σύνοδος. Zu einigen byzantinischen Wundererzählungen über das Konzil von Nizäa und ihrer Traditionsgeschichte

10:15 – 10:45 Ralf van BÜHREN (Rom): Spätantike Bilder Christi vom 4. bis 6. Jahrhundert. Ist eine kunsthistorische Rezeption des Konzils von Nizäa (325) erkennbar?

Pause

11:00 – 11:30. Johannes GROHE (Rom): Der Streit um das Symbolum Niceno-Constantinopolitanum zwischen Aachen und Rom Anfang des 9. Jhds. Das Konzil von Aachen 809 und die Verhandlungen einer fränkischen Delegation mit Leo III. 810

11:30 – 12:00 Uwe Michael LANG (London): Kaiser Heinrich II. und die Aufnahme des Symbolum Nicaeno-Constantinopolitanum in den römischen Messritus

12:00 – 12:30 Diskussion

Mittagspause

14:15 – 14:45. Ansgar FRENKEN (Ulm): Die Rezeption des ersten Nizänums auf den Konzilien des Hoch- und Spätmittelalters

14:45 – 15:15. Ulli ROTH (Koblenz): Apostel vor Konzilsväter. Kommentierungen des Symbolum Nicaeno-Constantinopolitanum in der Scholastik

Pause

15:30 – 16:00 Thomas PRÜGL (Wien): Das Konzil von Nizäa in den Debatten um Kircheneinheit auf dem Konzil von Ferrara-Florenz (1438–1443)

16:00 – 16:30  Peter BRUNS (Bamberg): Ein eigentümliches (nizänisches?) Glaubensbekenntnis des äthiopischen Kaisers Claudius (1540–1559)

16:30 – 17:00  Szilvia SOMOGYI (Budapest): Der Einfluss der „Großen Synode“ im 11. Jahrhundert auf Ungarn

17:00 Zusammenfassung, Ergebnisse, Schlussbemerkungen

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Organisationskomitee: Prof. Dr. Peter Bruns Bamberg

Dipl-theol. Guntram Förster (guntram.foerster@uni-bamberg.de)


Symposium on the Council of Pavia-Siena (1423-1424)

Ini consilium, coge concilium!  A Seicento anni dal Concilio di Pavia e Siena (1423-1424)

Pavia 5-7 Settembre 2023

  • Martedì 5 Settembre

Ore 15-18 Auditorium di San Tommaso, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Piazza del Lino, 2

SALUTI ISTITUZIONALI

- Maria Pavesi, Vicedirettrice del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici

- Don Fabio Besostri, Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale

INTRODUZIONE

- Daniela Rando, Da Costanza a Pavia. Le ragioni di un concilio

Pausa caffè

- Alberto Cadili, Il concilio e la città

Visita del complesso storico dell’Università

Ore 21 Almo Collegio Borromeo, Sala Bianca, Piazza Collegio Borromeo, 9

- Alberto Melloni, La storia infinita: concezioni ed esperienze del concilio nelle chiese

  • Mercoledì 6 Settembre

Auditorium di San Tommaso, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Piazza del Lino, 2

L’AGENDA

Ore 9-10.45

- Phillip H. Stump, Reform in Head and/or Members at the Council of Constance (1414-1418) - online

- Thomas Frank, Argomentare la riforma. A proposito di alcuni testi conciliari dell’inverno 1423/1424

Pausa caffè. Visita al Palazzo S. Tommaso, Sala delle Sibille

Ore 11.15-13

- Sebastian Kolditz, L’unione tra latini e greci da Costanza a Basilea: il luogo del concilio di Pavia-Siena in un processo di avvicinamento

- Cécile Caby, Predicazione e riforma dei religiosi al concilio di Pavia-Siena: un’occasione di scandalo?

PRESENZA, ASSENZA, INFLUENZA: PONTEFICE E CURIA

Ore 15.15-17 Sala conferenze, Basilica di S. Pietro in Ciel d’Oro, Piazza S. Pietro in Ciel d’Oro

- Wolfgang Decker, “Johannes infeliciter electus…in papam” und “Martinus temporum suorum felicitas”. Der “Übergang” vom Pisanischen zum Römischen Papsttum, auch bei den Banken? Alberti, Borromei, Cambini

- Davide Scotto, Contenere l’“esaltazione degli ebrei”. Martino V e il concilio dopo i taqqanot di Forlì (1418)

Pausa caffè. Visita alla basilica di S. Pietro in Ciel d’Oro

Ore 18

- Jessika Nowak, Die Kardinäle auf dem Konzil

  • Giovedì 7 Settembre

Aula Moretti, Almo Collegio Borromeo, Piazza Collegio Borromeo, 9

DIPLOMAZIA E CULTURA

Ore 9-10.45

- Tobias Daniels, Sigismund und das Reich

- Jacob Langeloh, Preacher, Chronicler, Speaker, Ambassador. Reflecting on the roles and rhetoric of John of Ragusa at the councils of Pavia-Siena and Basel

Pausa caffè

Ore 11.15-12.30

- Mariarosa Cortesi, Intellettuali sulla scena dei Concilî fra dispute, intrighi e diplomazia

CONCLUSIONI

Discussants: Michele Pellegrini, Giacomo Pirani

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 Comitato scientifico: Wolfgang Decker, Thomas Frank, Daniela Rando

 Segreteria del convegno: dott. Alberto Cadili, alcadili@libero.it 


New publications on the History of the Church Councils

Pontificio Comitato di Scienze Storiche, Un concilio di oggi. Memoria, recezione e presente del Concilio di Firenze (1439-2019), a cura di Riccardo Burigana e Pierantonio Piatti, Libreria Editrice Vaticana: Citta del Vaticano 2023. 410 pp.

 

The Council of Florence, in the history of the Church, constitutes an event in which Christians were able to meet to reflect together on the Church and its mission, in a perspective of unity into which the different traditions could converge, without losing sight of their own theological, spiritual, liturgical and faith experience identities. During the days of the Council‘s celebration, as on other occasions in its history, Florence was the capital of dialogue, where in listening to the word of God, Christians, who had come here from a thousand different routes, from Constantinople, Armenia, Egypt, Ethiopia, France and Spain, found a 'home' to overcome differences and prejudices and to cultivate hopes and knowledge, discovering a spiritual communion with which to face the challenges of the world (from the publisher's information).


Boris Ulianich † (1925-2023)

Boris Ulianich died in Naples on 31 March at the ripe old age of 98.


New publications on the History of the Church Councils

Published Annales Historiae Conciliorum 51/2 (2021)

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