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2nd International Conference
“Caring Before the Gates of Death”
October 12-16 2011
Rhodes

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Wednesday October 12, 2011

 

Arrival

16:00-18:00  Registration-Coffee  

18:00 Entrance of Conference Participants into the Conference Room

18:15 Service of the Blessing of Water (Agiasmos)

Opening Session

Presentation of Participants

Greetings

Message of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Α

Greetings from the Local Authorities

Presentation of the aim of the Conference by the Coordinator of the Network of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for Pastoral Care, Fr. Stavros Kofinas

Greeting and Official Opening by the President of the Conference,
His Eminence Metropolitan of Rhodes Kyrillos

Keynote address:
“Suffering and Death”      
Speaker: Fr. Makarios Griniezakis

20:30 Supper

 

Thursday October 13, 2011

 

9:15-10:15
“Palliative Care” 
Speaker: Elisavet Patiraki

10:15-11:15
“What does “human dignity” and “quality of life” mean in relation to death?”
Speaker: Fr. Nathanael Symeonides

11:15-12:00Coffee

12:00 – 13:00 
“The Will to Live and Psychological Death”
Speaker: Demetrios Kyriazis,

13:00-14:00
“The Fear of Death”
Speakers: His Grace Maxim Bishop of Los Angeles (Serbian Church),
Fr.. Stavros Kofinas

14:15 Lunch

16:15 Coffee

17:00-18:15 “Guilt and Death”    
A discussion between Christos Giannaras and Anna Potamianou,

18:15 
Presentation of the new publication of the Patriarchal Network:
«Θεραπείαν  Προσάγοντες – Εισαγωγή στην ποιμαντική διακονία στον χώρο της Υγείας» (tr. “Let Us Draw Ourselves to Therapy - An Introduction to Pastoral Health Care”) by Andreas Moratos 

18:45
Departure for the Old City
Stroll through the Old City (Free Evening)

 

Friday October 14, 2011

 

9:30-11:00 
“Health Care Providers before Death”
Moderator: Rev. Panagiotis Bistolarides M.D.

Speaker:  Demetra Kanaloupiti,

Speaker: Spyridoula Tsaroucha

Speaker: Protopresb. Demetrios Maroulis

11:00-11:45  Coffee

11:45 – 12:45
“Education of health care providers who care for the dying person”
Speaker:  Danai Papadatou

12:45-14:00
“Awaiting the death of our loved one”
Speakers: Protopresb. Evaggelos Psallas and  Irene Papazoglou

14:00 Lunch

16:15  Coffee

17:00-18:00
“Pastoral Aspects of Hospice and home care”
Speaker: His Eminence Nicholas Metropolitan of Mesogeas and Lavreotici

18:00-19:00 
“Development of Palliative Care Services”    
Speaker: Dr. Aliki Tserkezoglou

19:45 Supper

20:45 Departure for Cultural Event

21:15 Cultural Event – Sophia Papazoglou Concert  
(Sponsored by the  Municipality of Rhodes – Cultural Organization)

 

Saturday October 15, 2011

 

9:15-10:15
“The Service of the Dying (Psychοragounta)”                           
Speaker: Rev. Themistoklis Chrisodoulou

10:15 – 11:15
“Living Eschatologically”
Speaker:  Protopresb. Konstantine Nevrokoplis

11:15-12:00  Καφές

12:00-14:00
Open Discussion

14:00 Lunch

16:15 Departure for Vespers   

17:15 Great Vespers – Supper

 

Sunday October 16, 2011

 

8:15  Departure for the Holy Cathedral of the Annunciation

Hierarchal Liturgy at the Holy Cathedral of the Annunciation

Morning Coffee Hour at the Hotel

12:00
Closing Session
Conclusions of the Conference - Valedictions -Acknowledgements

13:00-14:30  Closing Luncheon

14:15  Departure