Constantinople refuses to discuss proposals of local Churches

Source: pravmir.ru

June 6, 2016

    

From the general secretariat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate:

Today, under the chairmanship of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, an extraordinary meeting of the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate took place with the participation of all the bishops residing in Constantinople, which reviewed the progress of the preparations by the grace of God for the soon-to-be convoked Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church.

It is with surprise and perplexity that the Holy Synod received the recently voiced positions and opinions of a number of sister Orthodox Churches, and stated that a revision of the already-planned conciliar process exceeds all institutional bounds. And therefore it is expected that, in accordance with the Regulations for organization and work of the Holy and Great Council, the Primates of the Holy Orthodox Churches will submit their “proposals for amendments, corrections, and additions to the unanimously approved texts of the Pan-Orthodox pre-conciliar meetings and the Meetings of the Primates as concern the council’s agenda of the day” (see article 11), with the ultimate goal of formulating and adopting decisions during the work of the Holy and Great Council, invoking the aid of the All-Holy and Perfecting Spirit.

As the Church bearing the primary responsibility for the upholding of Orthodox unity, the Ecumenical Patriarchate calls all to rise to the occasion and in the previously established terms to take part in the work of the Holy and Great Council, according to the Pan-Orthodox decisions, as signed by the Primates at their meetings, and as authorized by the representatives of the Church during the course of the long process of pre-conciliar preparations.

Translated by Jesse Dominick

pravmir.ru

6/6/2016

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The brothers of the Pochaev Lavra are in solidarity and agreement with the opinions of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the Episcopal Synod of ROCOR, the Holy Kinot of Holy Mount Athos, the Kamanets-Podolsk diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol (Orthodox Church of Cyprus)
Comments
Jesse6/8/2016 12:21 am
There have been proposals from various Local Synods to meet in order to resolve various isses BEFORE the Pan-Orthodox Council convenes, and it is these proposals that have been denied. It was precisely to repond to these proposals that the EP held this meeting.
Peregrinus6/7/2016 2:23 am
The title of this article is misleading. In the selfsame communique the EP asks the dissenting churches to bring their proposals to the council for discussion. Consequently, it is the dissenters who are refusing to discuss the issues in question by refusing to participate in the synodal process.
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