Christine Chaillot is a writer who specialises in oriental churches. She is Swiss and Orthodox (Patriarchate of Constantinople). In 2006, The Orthodox Church in Western Europe in the Twentieth Century was published. She has written several books on the life and spirituality of the Oriental Orthodox Churches (of the Syrian Orthodox, Armenian, Coptic and Ethiopian traditions), some of which have been translated into Arabic, Amharic and Russian.

• Contents: Kallistos Ware: Foreword – Christine Chaillot: Introduction – Andreas Nanakis: History of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Twentieth Century – Grigorios D. Papathomas: History of the Church of Greece in the Twentieth Century – Andreas N. Mitsides: The Church of Cyprus during the Twentieth Century – Todor Sabev: The Orthodox Church of Bulgaria in the Twentieth Century – Predag Puzović: A Short History of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century in Former Yugoslavia – Anastasios Yanoulatos: Some Notes on the History of the Orthodox Church of Albania in the Twentieth Century and its Resurrection from 1991 – Mircea Păcurariu: The Romanian Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century – Emil Dragnev: The Orthodox Church in Moldova in the Twentieth Century – Etele Kiss: A History of the Orthodox Church in Hungary in the Twentieth Century – Christopher Pulec/George Stránský: The Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia – Antoni Mironowicz: The Orthodox Church in Poland in the Twentieth Century – Alexander Gavrilin/Baiba Pazane: The Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century in the Baltic States: Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia – Feodor Krivonos: The Belarusian Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century – Sophia Senyk: The Orthodox Church in Ukraine in the Twentieth Century – Mikhail Vitalievich Shkarovsky: The Russian Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century – Zaza Abashidze: The Orthodox Church of Georgia in the Twentieth Century.

«Insgesamt möchte man dem inhaltsreichen Buch einen grossen Leserkreis wünschen.»(Hans-Dieter Döpmann, Süddosteuropa-Mitteilungen 05-06/2012)