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versary celebration dinner at Lambeth Palace in the presence of our
Anglican and Orthodox Presidents, the Bishop of London and His
Eminence the Archbishop of Thyatira, and the annual Constantinople
Lecture will be given in November at St Mellitus College in London,
and will be given by Fr John Behr, the Dean of St Vladimir’s Orthodox
Theological Academy in New York. The title of Fr John’s Lecture is
“Take Back Death! Christian Witness in the Twenty-First Century”, un-
derlining Metropolitan John of Pergamon’s assertion that the primary
question for all the churches in the twenty-?rst century will be “What
is the Human Person?” This theme of Christian anthropology shaped
and framed the most recent meeting of the Anglican-Orthodox Dia-
logue in Novi Sad, Serbia in 2013. Anglicans and Orthodox can respond
to that question with Irenaeus’s statement that the glory of God is the
human person fully alive. As we celebrate 150 years of Partnership in the
Gospel between Anglicans and Orthodox, and look ahead to the future,
the words of John the Evangelist will carry us forward “Behold, I make
all things new.” Laus Deo!

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