The 2nd International Scientific Conference of Chalcedon, entitled: “Ecumenical Patriarchate XVII – XVI Centuries – The Era of Reconstruction”, will be held in Constantinople on 23 and 24 October 2023.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will give the opening speech.
The purpose of the Conference is to highlight the course of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the first post-Byzantine centuries, a period during which it significantly expanded its presence in other fields beyond the religious one, such as the administration of justice, social welfare, education, the formation of a political ideology.