Author: Administrator
February 26, 2014
There has been OCL.org news, unobserved here until now, with an Oct 29, 2012 report that both Antiochian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Philip and Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow) Metropolitan Hilarion agreed that: “due to varying opinions by the many Orthodox jurisdictions [here in North America, the majority being led by foreign Bishops] as well as renewed and substantial immigration from many Orthodox countries, any real administrative unity is years off”. This makes us wonder if unity in North America will only come from grassroots initiatives like the Tennessee one with the guidance of local Bishops, since foreign Bishops and their overlords from there, have no interest in pushing it here. This discussion between two very important Hierarchs is the first shot across the bow of the most recent attempt at a united North & Central American Orthodox Church arc. In spite of this, with the creation of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in North & Central America a few years ago (whose mandate is to unite all Orthodox churches in this territory into one jurisdiction), after almost three years of inactivity regarding the ROEA (OCA) and ROAA (BOR) unity/merger issue, and because these 20 year old discussions have now become obsolete, talks on this issue seem to be over. Therefore, the May 2012 Administrator article remains valid.
