\u201cWe expect that preparatory process for the great and holy All-Orthodox Council of the Eastern Church will be revived,\u201d Inter-Orthodox Secretary of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archpriest Nikolay Balashov said on Friday.<\/p>\n
He reminded that preparations for the Council started in 1960 and after 30 years \u201cunfortunately, they were suspended, but not through the Russian Church fault.\u201d The Preparatory Commission last met about fifteen years ago.<\/p>\n
Fr. Nikolay reminded that last autumn at the Istanbul meeting between primates of all Orthodox Churches Patriarch Kirill (then Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad – IF) \u201cactively and largely contributed\u201d in taking decisions to lead preparatory work out of the deadlock.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Interfax reports that planning for a council of Orthodox Churches is actively underway. \u201cWe expect that preparatory process for the great and holy All-Orthodox Council of the Eastern Church will be revived,\u201d Inter-Orthodox Secretary of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Archpriest Nikolay Balashov said on Friday. He reminded that preparations for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784],"tags":[486,102,200,174,487,296,466,41,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":997,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}