Posted by Interfax (Tamara Northway) on 5/23/2007, 5:19 pm Moscow, May 23, Interfax - Fr. Andrew Phillips from the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia proposes a special inter-Orthodox consultative body - World Orthodox Council with the central office in Moscow or Novy Ierusalim near Moscow. ‘Today is the beginning of the 21st century, but some representatives of certain Local Orthodox Churches are still under the crapulent illusions of the previous century’s ecumenism. We think we should revive an Orthodox Russia and establish a World Orthodox Council to confront this scandal and solve many real problems,’ said Fr. Andrew in the article published by Pravaya.ru website. According to him, the council might become ‘an Orthodox forum, a center for meetings and reflections’ for Orthodox Churches. ‘It is absurd that to meet with each other the Orthodox need any non-Orthodox bodies as the WCC or the Conference of European Churches.’ Fr. Andrew suggested to locate the World Orthodox Council in Moscow or near it. ‘It seams there is no other place on earth where the council could get the required support and infrastructure,’ he said. The reviving Russian Orthodox Church, he opined, is not just ‘the only potential power able to bring to an end the steps’ towards liberalism in some Orthodox Churches, but also ‘a source of power and authority that could help to restore order and harmony in the currently chaotic ecclesiastical jurisdictions of the Orthodox diaspora.’
23 May 2007, 17:29
ROCOR priest proposes World Orthodox Council in Moscow or Novy Ierusalim
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