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The Russian ambassador to the Holy See, Alexander Avdeev, has given a long interview to RIA Novesti. It is an extremely positive assessment of the current relationship between the Russian Federation and the Vatican. He emphasizes the trust created by the contacts between Pope Francis and President Putin and the closeness of positions of the two counties on many issues. Cardinal Koch has given an interview to the Catholic news agency SIR. -Chiesa/Il-cammino-ecumenico.-Card.-Kurt-Koch-la-sorella-della-religione-e-la-pace In the interview he makes a number of interesting remarks relating to the visit of the relics of St. Nicholas, the great friendship between Coptic Pope Tawadros and Pope Francis, and the ecumenism of martyrs. He also states that a celebration is now being planned for February 2018 to observe the second anniversary of the Havana meeting.
I thought that you might be interested in this interview of Cardinal Koch in which he states that plans are now being made to celebrate the second anniversary of the Havana meeting: -Chiesa/Il-cammino-ecumenico.-Card.-Kurt-Koch-la-sorella-della-religione-e-la-pace
It is certainly possible that the UOC-MP may request the assistance of the Ecumenical Patriarch in connection with the future dialogue with the UOC-KP. To date the UOC-KP and Ukrainian parliament have been placing all of their hopes in establishing a canonical Ukrainian church on the Ecumenical Patriarch. If the Ecumenical Patriarch told the representatives of UOC-KP that a certain compromise was the furthest that he would go in supporting them, it could be persuasive.
On December 6, the patriarchs and heads of local churches in Jerusalem sent a joint letter to President Trump expressing their concerning about the plans to move the US embassy to Jerusalem. This following is a photocopy of the letter: _171206-2_0.pdf
The procedural regulations for the Council are posted at . Decisions are made by a simple majority. Voting is open, but a secret ballot may be held at the suggestion of the Patriarch or one-third of the attending bishops. Metropolitan Varsonofy of St. Petersburg has been elected secretary of the Council. Metropolitan Pavel of Minsk has been elected chairman of the drafting commission.
The report of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission, on the results of the study of the documents adopted by the Council of Primates and Hierarchs of ten Local Orthodox Churches, held in Crete on June 18-26, 2016.
Given that the Orthodox Church of Macedonia recognizes the Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Bulgarian Patriarchate as its Mother Church, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church - Bulgarian Patriarchate, aware of its sacred duty, undertakes to offer full cooperation with the latter, as well as to intercede for her and to support her with the Local Orthodox Churches, so that all the measures necessary for the establishment of her canonical status are taken.
The very complex history of the MOC- OA is described at _Orthodox_Church_%E2%80%93_Ohrid_Archbishopric. Beginning in 1959 the MOC-OA was recognized as an autonomous church under the Serbian Patriarchate. However, in 1967 the MOC-OA proclaimed its autocephaly, and the Serbian Patriarchate denounced the MOC-OA as schismatic. After a compromise settlement in 2002 was unsuccessful, the Serbian Patriarchate establish its own canonical and autonomous Ohrid Archbishopic in 2005 with Archbishop Jovan as its head. Just a few days ago, on November 16, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the Macedonian government had violated the European Convention on Human Rights by refusing to register the Ohrid Archbishopric established by the Serbian Patriarchate. "languageisocode":["ENG"],"documentcollectionid2":["JUDGMENTS"],"itemid":["001-178890"] Although the general area of Macedonia was under Bulgarian Exarchate from 1879 to World War I, it is extremely likely that the Serbian Patriarchate will vigorously resist any effort to make that area a part of the BP in the future.
I have heard about the missionary success of the Patriarchate of Alexandria in sub-Sahara Africa, but I did not know of the work of the Old Believers there. The following is a very interesting article about the work of the Old Believers among the native population in Uganda.
Cardinal Kurt Koch From September 5 to 9, the Coordinating Committee of Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church met on the Greek island of Leros. This committee consists of ten Orthodox and Catholic members of the Commission under the leadership of both co-presidents, Archbishop Job of Telmessos of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and me, and had the task to prepare the continuation of the ecumenical dialogue and with that also to plan the next plenary meeting of the Commission. The last plenary meeting took place in September 2016 in Italian Chieti and the important document "Synodality and Primacy in the First Millennium: Towards a Common Understanding in the Service to Unity" was adopted. At the end of the session, the Coordinating Committee was commissioned to decide about the topic and those aspects which need to be worked out further in ecumenical dialogue. The Coordination Committee at Leros accepted this task with great care.
Koch In no way! After the meeting of the Coordination Committee, there is never a communique. Also, above all on the Orthodox side, the Churches that were not present at the meeting should not hear of the decisions of the Coordinating Committee from the media, but be previously personally informed. The Committee has done good work, and we parted with a positive result, even more positive than I had expected prior to the meeting.
Koch The theological dialogue in not always easy to conduct since Catholics and Orthodox come from partly different traditions and reside in different cultural environments. In the dialogue, however, both sides are ready and make an effort to listen to one another and to find a common way for the future. The working meeting at Leros therefore took place in a good atmosphere and in a constructive spirit. In addition, the gracious hospitality of Orthodox Metropolitan Paisios of Leros, Kalymnos und Astypalaia (Ecumenical Patriarchate) contributed significantly to this. In his farsighted care for the participants, he has shown how much the dialogue between Catholics and Orthodox is a heartfelt concern to him.
KNA How will the work of the entire Commission continue? With two documents, will it not be necessary to change the working style? A new plenary has still not been announced. Why is the work proceeding so slowly?
KNA In recent times new initiatives of church rapprochement have increased. For example, they speak of the "ecumenism of the saints", the "cultural ecumenism," and the "ecumenism of collective action." Have these fruitful areas of encounter had positive repercussions on the theological dialogue?
Koch I can certainly say so. Even the historical alienation in the Church between East and West has had more cultural than theological causes. Therefore, reconciliation and mutual rapprochement also need other forms of ecumenism than theological dialogue alone. Take, for example, the stay of the relics of Saint Nicholas of Bari for two months in Moscow and St. Petersburg, where about two million believers venerated the relics, so one may gratefully find that this event has very much helped the dialogue. For after the encounter between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill, there has been some opposition to the Patriarch in Russia. Once the faithful could now realize that the transfer of the relics of Saint Nicholas to Russia had been a first fruit of the ecumenical meeting in Havana, Cuba, it has very much helped to lessen the tensions. The "ecumenism of the saints" is for me a good way to involve the faithful in the ecumenical dialogue. It is beautiful and helpful, if the leaders of various churches meet each other and theologians carry on dialogues with each other. But ecumenism ultimately leads into the future only when the believers go along. We must in the International Commission give still more attention to this localization of the theological dialogue between Orthodox and Catholics in the life of the churches.
Because the report that I sent to you on Saturday relating to the situation in Kolomyia was so long, I did not include certain new developments in other areas. Below is a brief description of other developments:
If the conclusions are critical of the Crete Council and are adopted by the Bishops Council, one wonders what effect this might have on the gathering of the primates who have been invited to come to Moscow on December 4. Metropolitan Hilarion has made trips to visit a number of the primates of the Local Orthodox Churches and personally to give them invitations. The latest is Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia. -religion.com/?act=news&div=14066 Patriarch Ilia accepted the invitation, subject to his health at that time.
At a reception held in Moscow to observed the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Metropolitan Hilarion gave an address which I found very interesting and candid. His address included the following remarks: I will say at once: for us, Orthodox, this date is not an occasion to rejoice and triumph, just as we would not have dreamed of celebrating the anniversary of the "great schism" of 1054. Then the world Christianity was divided into two parts - the eastern and the western. In 1517, another split occurred - now inside the Western Church, when a significant group of believers, led by Martin Luther, separated from her. Every schism inflicts damage on Christian unity, and every reformation, if it divides believers into warring camps, is contrary to the spirit of Christ's teaching. He then described some of the positive and negative results of the Reformation.
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