Posted by Leo
on 11/3/2009, 4:43 am, in reply to "Re: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew’s statement on SCOBA meeting"
Message modified by user Leo 11/3/2009, 5:57 am
If it's being characterized as "merely" (if you'll pardon the expression) a SCOBA "audience" with HAH, and not a full-on SCOBA "meeting" (as I'd expected; well, they met for a couple hours recently to schedule next May's Assembly), maybe HILARION wasn't there because he hasn't joined SCOBA yet. Still dealing with the breakaways from the MP reconciliation I guess; SCOBA is even more "ecumenist" than the MP! Baby steps....
--Leo
PS: I add the following, the only mention of SCOBA of any kind on ROCOR's website, from a historical talk apparently given 3 years ago on an occasion of theirs:
"ROCOR was invited to participate in the Standing Conference of Orthodox Bishops of America (SCOBA) established in 1960 at the initiative of Archbishop Iakovos (Patriarchate of Constantinople). In his reply, however, Metropolitan Anastasii stated that ROCOR would participate in the conference only if representatives of the Moscow Patriarchate were excluded, which was unacceptable to Archbishop Iakovos. At times, an uncompromising stand in regard to the communist government was, within ROCOR, as significant an issue as protecting the true Orthodox faith; in other words, resistance to communism was perceived as an inseparable part of protecting the purity of the faith."
PPS: Doesn't sound like the Georgian Metropolitan was at the "audience" either!
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