Tag: Orthodox Church
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OCA: First, proclaim the Gospel
From OCA News on Tuesday’s start of the fall sessions of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America and the OCA’s Metropolitan Council: In addressing the strategic plan, Metropolitan Council members entered into a long and passionate discussion about the mission and vision of the OCA. It was observed that in…
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The Abkhazian Orthodox Church
From a report on the Ekklesia news wire by Sophia Kishkovsky: The leader of Orthodox Christians in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia, has declared that his diocese is breaking with the Patriarchate of Georgia in defiance of the Moscow Patriarchate. The announcement of last week is the latest echo of conflict in the volatile…
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Archbishop Hilarion makes appeal for Christian unity
From Interfax: Moscow, September 21 — Head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, who is visiting Rome, has celebrated the Divine Liturgy in Catacombs of St. Callixtus. Speaking to believers after the service, the Archbishop urged to overcome a thousand-year-old dispute between Christians of East and West and…