Synod of Jassy

{{Short description|Eastern Orthodox Synod (25 Sept.–27 Oct. 1642) convened in Iași}}

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The Synod of Jassy{{Cite book|url=http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/9781405166584|title=The Blackwell Dictionary of Eastern Christianity|date=2017-09-01|publisher=Blackwell Publishing Ltd|isbn=978-1-4051-6658-4|editor-last=Parry|editor-first=Ken|location=Oxford, UK|pages=263|language=en|chapter=Jassy, Synod of|doi=10.1002/9781405166584|orig-year=1999|editor-last2=Melling|editor-first2=David J.|editor-last3=Brady|editor-first3=Dimitri|editor-last4=Griffith|editor-first4=Sidney H.|editor-last5=Healey|editor-first5=John F.}} or Synod of Iași (also referred to as the Council of Jassy or the Council of Iași{{cite web|url=https://orthochristian.com/94479.html|title=Council message could codify four new ecumenical councils|website=Orthodox Christianity|date=20 June 2016}}), was convened in Iași in Moldavia (present-day Romania) between 15 September and 27 October 1642 by the Ecumenical Patriarch Parthenius I of Constantinople, with the support of the Moldavian Prince Vasile Lupu.[http://ziarullumina.ro/actualitate-religioasa/sinodul-de-la-iasi-1642 About the Synod of Iași] {{in lang|ro}}

The purpose of the synod was to counter what Eastern Orthodox considered as Roman Catholic and Protestant doctrinal errors that had entered Eastern Orthodox Christian theology, and to offer a comprehensive Eastern Orthodox statement on the content and character of the Eastern Orthodox faith.{{cite book|author=John Anthony McGuckin|author-link=John Anthony McGuckin|title=The Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, 2 Volume Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JmFetR5Wqd8C&pg=PA325|date=15 December 2010|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-4443-9254-8|pages=325–}}

Including representatives of the Greek and Slavic Churches, it condemned the Calvinist teachings ascribed to Cyril Lucaris and ratified (a somewhat amended text of) Peter Mogila's Expositio fidei (Statement of Faith, also known as the Orthodox Confession), a description of Christian orthodoxy in a question and answer format.[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100018211 Synod of Jassy] at oxfordreference.com{{sfn|Siecienski|2010|pp=183}}[http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/creeds1.v.vi.html Creeds of Christendom, with a History and Critical notes. Volume I. The History of Creeds.]§ 16. The Orthodox Confession of Mogilas, A.D. 1643. The Statement of Faith became fundamental for establishing the Eastern Orthodox world's attitude toward Reformation thought. The major contribution of the synod was the reinforced sense of unity in the Eastern Orthodox Church through the promulgation of an authoritative statement agreed upon by all the major sees.