This monograph unfolds the story of the ecumenical turn in Orthodox-Catholic relationships in
the 1960s with special focus on one of its chief architects: André Scrima (1925-2000).
Therefore the central objective of the monograph is to reconstruct Scrima's active involvement
in the events that marked an epochal shift in Orthodox-Catholic relationships in the context of
the Second Vatican Council. In doing so the monograph argues that his work in the service of
reconciliation between the Church of Constantinople and the Church of Rome was instrumental to
the positive change that occurred in Orthodox-Catholic relationships in the 1960s which
influenced the course of interaction between the two major Christian traditions in the decades
that followed and continues to do so even today.
