The foundation Pro Oriente was founded in 1964 by the Viennese cardinal Franz König to improve relationships between the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches. The foundation was established during Second Vatican Council which opened the Catholic Church's doors to other religions with its ecumenism-decree "Unitatis Redintegratio". Pro Oriente has charters in Vienna, Graz, Salzburg and Linz. Pro Oriente experienced a crisis in the year 1998 with the death of its leader and president of many years, Alfred Stirnemann.[1][2]
In 1972 Pro Oriente established the Viennese Christological formula (Wiener Christologische Formel) as a mutual new interpretation of the Christology of the Council of Chalcedon held by the Oriental Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. It was based on a recommendation by the Coptic Church in Vienna and is among the most important contributions of the foundation.
Vienna Christological Formula:
"We believe that our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, is God the Son Incarnate; perfect in his divinity and perfect in his humanity. His divinity was not separated from his humanity for a single moment, not for the twinkling of an eye. His humanity is one with his divinity without commixtion, without confusion, without division, without separation. We in our common faith in the one Lord Jesus Christ, regard his mystery inexhaustible and ineffable and for the human mind never fully comprehendible or expressible."[1]
The foundation ProOriente was founded in 1964 by the Viennese cardinal Franz König to improve relationships between the Roman Catholic and the Eastern...
Non-Official Consultation on Dialogue within the Syriac Tradition. Vienna: ProOriente. pp. 97–107. ISBN 9783515057189. Filoni, Fernando (2017). The Church...
Commission on Inter-Church Relations and Education Development, Fifth ProOriente Non-official Consultation on Dialogue within the Churches of the Syriac...
ecumenism especially with Orthodox Churches, as a member of the board of ProOriente from 1986. He focused on the Trinity, founded the art prize 1+1+1=1 for...
Church of the East to join the MECC have stalled since 1999. The Austrian ProOriente Foundation brought together several Syriac churches in Vienna in 1994...
Ostarrichi to the Bosporus: An Overview of Relations in the Middle Ages]. ProOriente Jahrbuch 2010 (in German). Vienna: 66–77. Simpson, Alicia (2013). Niketas...
albanisch-sprachigen Südosteuropa, preface by O. Schmitt, Frankfurt am Main: ProOriente – Peter Lang, pp. 69-110. Pages 75-77. *Kallivretakis, Leonidas (2003)...
Agaganian Cardinal Franz König, Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna and founder of ProOriente Cardinal Franz Ehrle, one-time professor at the Orientale Cardinal Ladisław...
Honorary member of the Curatorium of the Roman Catholic Institution «ProOriente», Vienna (1989 ff.). President-Moderator of the Commission on World Mission...
Santos relembra formação no Fluminense e valoriza temporada vitoriosa no Oriente Médio". EsporteNewsMundo.com.br. 15 June 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2023....
Churches, and semi-official theological conversations sponsored by the ProOriente Foundation in Vienna. This process of reconciliation led to the establishment...
Ostarrichi to the Bosporus: An Overview of Relations in the Middle Ages]. ProOriente Jahrbuch 2010 (in German). Vienna: 66–77. Rhoby, Andreas (2004). "Wer...
Kottayam. He was a member of the Pro-Oriente Syriac Commission and is a member of the Forum Syriacum of the Pro-Oriente Foundation. He was one of the Malankara...
for Education, Chairman of Inter Religious Fellowship, member of the ProOriente Foundation in Vienna, Austria (since 1993) and member of the Scientific...
Sixth Non-Official Consultation on Dialogue within the Syriac Tradition. ProOriente. Perczel, István (2018). "Accommodationist Strategies on the Malabar...
Committee member of the World Religions Forum Macedonia. Member of the ProOriente Forum Syriacum and Forum Colloquium, Vienna. Central Committee member...
was committed to ecumenism. In the 1970s he became an adviser to the ProOriente Institute in Vienna, which promoted contact with other Christian Churches...
Luto! Morre no interior mineiro técnico que fez sucesso no Brasil e no Oriente Médio (in Portuguese) Muere la activista trans Silvia Reyes, pionera defensora...
participated in ecumenical dialogues with the Catholic Church in the ProOriente and accompanied Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I Iwas during his historic visit...
observer status in the Council. The international Catholic organization ProOriente, which promotes a dialogue with the Orthodox churches, was also active...
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