Ecumenism at a Crossroad

For three days this July — July 13–15, 2026, at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., Catholic and Orthodox bishops, theologians, and faithful will gather around a single question. The decades since the lifting of the 1054 anathemas in Jerusalem in 1964 have produced an extraordinary body of agreed statements, most notably the Chieti, Ravenna, and Alexandria statements. The dialogue commissions have done their work. The consensus, in large part, now exists on paper. So the theme of this year’s gathering is not “whether we can find agreement” but “what now”: Ecumenism at a Crossroad: Consensus Achieved — What’s Next?

It is a question my grandfather James Likoudis spent his life pressing toward, and one the Foundation now carries forward as a co-sponsor of the conference, alongside the Orientale Lumen Foundation, the Washington Theological Consortium, and the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Holy Cross.

The full confirmed program brings together voices from across the Catholic and Orthodox worlds:

• Cardinal Seán O’Malley, OFM Cap. — Archbishop Emeritus of Boston

• Archbishop Flavio Pace — Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity

• Metropolitan-Archbishop Job of Pisidia — Ecumenical Patriarchate (virtual address & panel)

• Metropolitan-Archbishop Borys Gudziak — Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia · Chair, USCCB Committee on International Justice and Peace (by video)

• Bishop Anthony Vrame — Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople · Greek Orthodox

• Bishop John Michael Botean — Eparchy of St. George in Canton · Romanian Greek Catholic

• Jack Figel — Founder, Orientale Lumen Foundation · Eastern Catholic, lay

• Dr. John Borelli — Moderator · Georgetown University

His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America and Archbishop of Washington, will also be in attendance.

Bishop Denis Madden (Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Baltimore) and Archbishop Gabriele Caccia (Apostolic Nuncio to the United States) are also expected.

Three days of lectures, discussion panels, joint prayer, shared meals; and — fittingly for a conference on what comes after consensus — a signed joint statement on how we can live our agreement in practice. Overnight lodging is available on site.

Full registration runs $295–$325, with a $100 single-day rate and a $50 graduate-student rate; on-site overnight lodging is $100.

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The Orientale Lumen Foundation · The Likoudis Legacy Foundation · The Washington Theological Consortium · The Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Hellenic College Holy Cross

Keep us in your prayers, we’ll keep you in ours. I hope to see you in Washington.

Andrew Likoudis
Founder & Chairman, Likoudis Legacy Foundation