More than 500 people gathered at St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in suburban Detroit last week to hear Metropolitan Kallistos Ware<\/a> deliver a talk on “The Future of Orthodoxy in the United States.” Metropolitan Ware’s visit was sponsored by St. Andrew House — Center for Orthodox Studies, also in Detroit.<\/p>\n The author of The Orthodox Church<\/em> and The Orthodox Way<\/em> told the assembly that “we must say the catholicity and universality of the church are more valuable, more fundamental than our national, ethnic, and cultural identity.” And, His Eminence added, “if the basis of the Church’s existence is life in the eucharist, it means that the church is organized on a territorial, and not on an ethnic principle.”<\/p>\n Ancient Faith Radio<\/a> recorded the event. It was sponsored and hosted by St. Andrew House<\/a>, A Pan Orthodox institution dedicated to Orthodox unity.<\/p>\n Listen to Metropolitan Kallistos (Timothy) Ware’s address:<\/p>\n