Cleveland Orthodox Christians host first forum about unifying churches in U.S.

Parma, Ohio, October 24, 2013

Members of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North America at their annual meeting in Chicago. Members of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North America at their annual meeting in Chicago.
Cleveland's Orthodox Christian community will host a first-of-its-kind public forum on Sunday about the effort to unify the 12 Orthodox jurisdictions in the United States. Greater Cleveland's 29 Orthodox parishes represent most of them, including Greek, Ukrainian, Russian, Antiochian, Serbian, Romanian and an American Orthodox Church.

Intended as a model for other cities, the forum was planned by local laity with support of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops, whose 49 members are developing a plan to unify the Orthodox Church. Its various jurisdictions share doctrine and liturgy but have their own languages and hierarchy.

Three hierarchs -— Metropolitan Savas of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Bishop Gregory of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA, and Bishop Peter of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia -— are expected to attend the forum. Protodeacon Peter Danilchick, member of the Secretariat of the Assembly of Bishops, will discuss the group's history, goals and fourth annual meeting in Chicago.

Free and open to the public, the event starts at 5 p.m. Sunday [Oct. 27] at Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, 6822 Broadview Road, Parma.

Cleveland.com
By Tom Feran

10/28/2013

See also
Letter from the Secretary of the Synod of Bishops to the Chairman of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in North and Central America Letter from the Secretary of the Synod of Bishops to the Chairman of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in North and Central America
Archbishop Kyrill (Dmitrieff) Letter from the Secretary of the Synod of Bishops to the Chairman of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in North and Central America Letter from the Secretary of the Synod of Bishops to the Chairman of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in North and Central America
Archbishop Kyrill (Dmitrieff)
Our primary concern and consideration, as unworthy inheritors of the Lord’s Apostolic charge, is for the salvation of our flock, considered not in terms of potentiality but actuality. Those whom the Lord in His mercy has delivered unto us are diverse in age, background, race and heritage—and, indeed, ethnicity—and for each soul we rejoice as a shepherd who finds the one sheep that has gone astray (Isaiah 53:6; Matthew 18:12-13). "We Always Prayed For the Unity of Our Church." An Interview with Metropolitan Hilarion
Svetlana Vysotskaya and Alexander Frolov spoke with Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral) "We Always Prayed For the Unity of Our Church." An Interview with Metropolitan Hilarion
Metropolitan Hilarion (Kapral), Svetlana Vysotskaya, Alexander Frolov
Thank God, our unity was established long ago. One can say that it happened even before the signing of the Act. The Russian people who live abroad mostly awaited unification, and prayed for it. And it was finally manifested in the form of the canonical act, because there remained no other obstacles—neither dogmatic nor historic—connected with the tragic events in the history of our country. I can state with confidence that our unity is secure. Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America web site makes its debut Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America web site makes its debut Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America web site makes its debut Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America web site makes its debut
The web site of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America -- formerly known as the Episcopal Assembly of North and Central America -- made its debut on Friday, December 17, 2010

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