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"We have concluded that when the principle of phyletism (i.e. ecclesiastical nationalism) is juxtaposed with the teaching of the Gospel and the constant practice of the Church, it is not only foreign to it, but also completely opposed, to it. We decree the following in the Holy Spirit: 1. We reject and condemn racial division, that is, racial differences, national quarrels and disagreements in the Church of Christ, as being contrary to the teaching of the Gospel and the holy canons of our blessed fathers, on which the holy Church is established and which adorn human society and lead it to Divine piety. 2. In accordance with the holy canons, we proclaim that those who accept such division according to races and who dare to base on it hitherto unheard-of racial assemblies are foreign to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and are real schismatics." Constantinople...1872
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    Clergy Disrupt Orthodox-Catholic Conference; Fear Orthodox Submission to Pope

    Posted by George Patsourakos on 10/19/2009, 11:08 pm

    Members of Orthodox Christian unions -- along with clerics and monks -- yesterday disrupted a joint conference between Orthodox and Catholic Christians in Cyprus, because they claimed that the dialogue between the two churches would result in the submission of the Orthodox Church to the Pope.

    The unions, monks, and clerics were protesting against the conference being held, and demanded that Archbishop Chrysostomos II cancel it.

    It was the first day of the Conference of the Joint Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church.

    This Conference, which takes place every two years, is scheduled to end October 23, 2009.

    Christianity was split into Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism in the Great Schism in 1054, due to several differences in Christian dogma between Constantinople and Rome.

    For more information on this Conference, visit the Cyprus-Mail website.

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