Tag: Orthodox Church
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Vatican II and the Orthodox Bishops
Fr. Tom asks: Is it possible that the teaching of the Second Vatican Council about the ministry of bishops in the Roman Catholic Church is now being taught and practiced in an adapted and altered form in our Orthodox churches today? It’s a cogent and sober warning about the subversion of Orthodox ecclesiology that unfortunately…
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The Episcopal Assembly, the OCA, and the future Orthodox Church of the USA
By Fr. Thomas Hopko It’s not clear what is now happening for the establishment of an autocephalous Orthodox Church of the United States made up of the member churches of the former SCOBA. These are my questions: What concrete steps are now being taken to establish an autocephalous Orthodox Church of the United States that…
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The Episcopal Assembly has a website…
…and a new logo too. See Episcopal Assembly. But more interesting is this news from the Orthodox Christian Fellowship of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. On the occasion of the Episcopal Assembly of all canonical Orthodox Bishops of Oceania and Asia, which will take place in Sydney from 16th-18th October 2010, there will be on…
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Metropolitan PHILIP Saliba – On the Record
Note October 14, 2010: A few days ago I posted this interview (a very good one, BTW), then took it down, but I am putting it back up but disabling comments. Why did I take it down? I took it down because Met. Philip, a flash-point in the blogosphere right now, is also my hierarch.…
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George Matsoukas: The Episcopal Assembly — Is it Stalled? Let the Work Begin
Source: Orthodox Christian Laity The work of the Episcopal Assembly is off to a slow start. The coordinators are not coordinating. Could it be that the Patriarch asked all to go to Istanbul so he too could understand where are the committees and how are they progressing. After all the Old World Patriarchs directed the…