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1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3The Bishops Are Coming To New York, As Complex Diaspora Question Looms
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Read closely. What are the greatest fears? The autocephaly of the OCA (wild card) and the Ligonier Council (precedent). The times are changing folks. The lumbering bureaucratic structures that have sublimated the nascent creativity and energy of American Orthodoxy under the weight Old World self-interest might be loosing their grip. There is more anxiety here […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/the-bishops-are-coming-to-new-york-as-complex-diaspora-question-looms/feed/82Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew sums up visit with Greek ‘diaspora’ in America
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Turkey, Nov. 10, 2009 Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew referred to the great progress made by the Greek Diaspora in statements he made upon his return from a two-week visit to the United States. Addressing the faithful in the Church of the Taxiarchs in Bosporus, the Ecumenical Patriarch stated that the progress achieved by the Greek Community, […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/ecumenical-patriarch-bartholomew-sums-up-visit-with-greek-diaspora-in-america/feed/32Greek Socialists Seeking ‘Diaspora’ Talent
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A roundup of news in the wake of the Socialists’ return to power in Greece: Greek Orthodox Archbishop Demetrios congratulated George Papandreou on his election victory in Greece. The Archbishop wished him success in his “manifold work for the benefit of the homeland and the Greeks abroad.” “Diplomats,” dismayed at rising xenophobia and nationalism, cheered […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/greek-socialists-seeking-diaspora-talent/feed/3Locality, the Episcopate, and Canonicity: Reflections on the Recent Pre-Conciliar Meeting at Chambesy
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Author: George Michalopulos ABSTRACT: In previous essays posted on this forum, the present author analyzed the formation of autocephalous churches, the role of the metropolitan and its role within the episcopate, the canonical claims of existing patriarchates regarding primacy within the so-called Diaspora, and the current jurisdictional crisis within North America. As to the idea […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/new-article-post-on-main-page-locality-the-episcopate-and-canonicity-reflections-on-the-recent-pre-conciliar-meeting-at-chambesy/feed/4Unraveling Chambesy — Administrative Unity In Our Time
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Our canons call for there to be one bishop in one place but here in America as well as other countries of the so called “diaspora” immigration and pastoral concerns have served to violate those canons. To address this issue, the leaders and representatives of all of the autocephalous Mother Churches were convened by HIs […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/unraveling-chambesy-administrative-unity-in-our-time/feed/28Antiochian monasticism speaks to the current crisis…
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From the Ochlophobist (one who has an aversion to crowds) website: The following is very important. It was written by Archim. Touma, who is said to be the most influential monastic under Antioch. He is Athonite in spirituality, he leads the most traditional monastery under the Holy Synod of Antioch, and he does not normally […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/antiochian-monasticism-speaks-to-the-current-crisis/feed/22Official Statement on the ‘Diaspora’ from the Chambesy Conference
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THE FOURTH PRE-CONCILIAR PAN-ORTHODOX CONFERENCE The Orthodox Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate Chambésy, 6-13 June 2009 THE ORTHODOX DIASPORA Decision The Fourth Pre-Conciliar Pan-Orthodox Conference was convened by His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, with the consensus of Their Beatitudes the Primates of the Most Holy Orthodox Churches expressed during their Sacred Synaxis at the […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/official-statement-on-the-diaspora-from-the-chambesy-conference/feed/13Moscow Patriarchate reports on Chambesy meeting
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The Moscow Patriarchate has released a statement, in English, on the work of the all-Orthodox pre-conciliar meeting in Chambesy, Switzerland, earlier this month. The patriarchate explains how “episcopal assemblies” are to be constituted. Text follows: The 4th Pan-Orthodox Pre-Council Conference, which took place at the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s Orthodox Center in Chambesy near Geneva, completed […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/moscow-patriarchate-reports-on-chambesy-meeting/feed/3AsiaNews: ‘Historic’ decision in Chambésy
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On the Roman Catholic site AsiaNews, Nat da Polis files a report on the Fourth Pre-Conciliar meeting of Orthodox hierarchs who assembled last week in Switzerland to discuss the problem of the “diaspora.” Da Polis views the pending trip of Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill to the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul as a “significant step” in […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/asianews-historic-decision-in-chambesy/feed/6Moscow: No Episcopal ‘Monopoly’
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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 […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/moscow-no-episcopal-monopoly/feed/88Communiqué from Chambésy
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Orthodox Report, a UK site, has a translation of the official French-language communiqué issued by the Fourth Pre-Conciliar Pan-Orthodox Conference that met June 6-12 in Chambesy, Switzerland, to discuss the problem of the Orthodox “diaspora.” [Orthodox hierarchs pictured above at the meeting] The news release is available in Greek and Russian, for those who can […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/communique-from-chambesy/feed/11Our Freedom Never Fully Realized
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In 1981, the Very Rev. Leonidas C. Contos delivered a lecture titled “2001: The Church in Crisis.” Fr. Contos said the title was chosen because the American Orthodox Church had been in a crisis “for a very long time” and he wanted to fix a reference point for speculations on what the Church’s situation might […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/our-freedom-never-fully-realized/feed/6On the ‘gradual consolidation of the Orthodox diasporas’
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Comments from Russian Orthodox Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk on the pre-conciliar deliberations at Chambesy, Switzerland, which was to address, in part, “problems in the Orthodox diaspora.” In this interview with the Russian news service Interfax, before leaving for the meeting, the archbishop talks about the “many faces” of the Orthodox ‘diaspora’ and the agenda setting […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/on-the-gradual-consolidation-of-the-orthodox-diasporas/feed/8Archbishop Hilarion Predicts ‘New Local Churches’
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From Interfax: Archbishop Hilarion contemplates the establishment of new local Orthodox Churches Moscow, June 1, – Head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk believes that the current Inter-Orthodox consultations may cause the establishment of new local Orthodox churches. “It is our opinion that the progressive consolidation of Orthodox […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/archbishop-hilarion-predicts-new-local-churches/feed/1‘On a Summoning of the Great Council’
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In response to the “First Pre-Conciliar Conference” held in Chambesy, Switzerland (near Geneva) in November 1976, Archimandrite Dr. Justin Popovic composed “On A Summoning of the Great Council of the Orthodox Church.” In this, Fr. Popovic (1894-1979), spiritual father of the monastery of Celie Valjevo (Serbia), expressed his “grievous considerations for the future council.” The […]]]>https://www.aoiusa.org/on-a-summoning-of-the-great-council/feed/2