Moscow: No Episcopal ‘Monopoly’
June 15, 2009 by John Couretas · 88 Comments
More on the episcopal assemblies announced at the pre-conciliar meeting last week in Switzerland: “Anti-monopoly” proposals of the Moscow Patriarchate are taken into account in Chambesy Moscow, June 15, Interfax – The Fourth Pan-Orthodox Pre-Council Conference in Chambesy (Switzerland) has agreed in its final decision to the need of equal management of the Orthodox Diaspora [...]
Bishop Hilarion: Ecumenical Patriarchate seeks to impose Roman Catholic model of primacy
April 11, 2009 by John Couretas · 16 Comments
From Interfax: Moscow Patriarchate disagrees with Constantinople desire to play special role in Orthodoxy MOSCOW (April 10) — Bishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s external church relations department, has criticized the Constantinople Patriarchate’s intention to control all church communities within the Orthodox diaspora. “I see the situation in the inter-Orthodox relations [...]
All-Orthodox Council on the way?
February 13, 2009 by John Couretas · 16 Comments
Interfax reports that planning for a council of Orthodox Churches is actively underway. “We expect that preparatory process for the great and holy All-Orthodox Council of the Eastern Church will be revived,” Inter-Orthodox Secretary of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archpriest Nikolay Balashov said on Friday. He reminded that preparations for the [...]
Bp. Hilarion: Russian Orthodox Must Stay in WCC
July 3, 2008 by John Couretas · Leave a Comment
Moscow, June 30, Interfax – Withdrawal of the Russian Orthodox Church from the World Council of Churches should weaken positions of Moscow Patriarchate in the inter-Orthodox dialogue, the representative of Russian Church in European international organizations believes. “This withdrawal may only weaken our positions today in defending the Church teaching which we consider traditional, which [...]
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