Author: Administrator
May 15, 2014
A pan-Orthodox meeting was held in Cleveland, Ohio on October 27, 2013 to discuss Orthodox Unity in America.\u00a0 A video of part of this was made available on the \u201cassemblyofbishops.org\u201d website on Nov. 1, 2013.\u00a0 When asked about the plans for a United American Orthodox Church, whether or not it was to be autocephalous, and if not, under whose authority it would be, the American Greek Orthodox Archdiocese\u2019s Metropolitan Savas responded: \u201cWe are not charged with coming up with a blueprint for an autocephalous church.\u00a0 We are being charged with coming up with a solution to a canonical anomaly\u2026\u00a0 If they [Orthodox Patriarchs] thought that we were interpreting it [their directives to us] as coming up with a blueprint for our own independence \u2026 this [process] wouldn\u2019t be happening.\u201d\u00a0 This statement seems to contradict the main goal of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in North & Central America as found on their website with the lead proposal being: \u201c\u2026 the promotion and accomplishment of [Orthodox] Church Unity in North and Central America \u2026\u201d When asked if one can therefore assume that the Assembly of Bishops has a fundamental desire\/commitment to that vision of the United Orthodox Church in the Americas, whether we use the A [autocephaly] word or not, Metropolitan Savas responded that he did not know if that was the case!\u00a0 This uncertainty translates into the fourth shot across the bow of the most recent attempt at a united Orthodox Church arc here. In addition, following a territorial dispute over Qatar, between the Antiochian Patriarchate and that of Jerusalem, the Synod of the Patriarchate of Antioch decided to temporarily withdraw from all Assemblies of Canonical Orthodox Bishops worldwide.\u00a0 This was posted on the \u201cassemblyofbishops.org\u201d website in Dec, 2013.\u00a0 Qatar and its few Orthodox faithful are now impacting millions of Orthodox around the world, including those of us here.\u00a0 Orthodox unity discussions are now suffering because of foreign territory issues!\u00a0 This is the fifth shot across the bow of the most recent attempt at a united Orthodox Church arc here. And just a few days before Easter 2014, it was announced on the \u201cassemblyofbishops.org\u201d website, that the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in North & Central America will be reorganized with an Assembly for the USA, one for Canada, and with Central America being merged into the Latin American Assembly. Don\u2019t our leaders see how few we are in these neighbouring countries?\u00a0 And after we barely manage to organize ourselves into something relatively noticeable, we immediately proceed to dividing it into small and insignificant pieces\u2026 In this context, how can we be considered here as a principal Christian faith – Orthodoxy – the root of Christianity? In spite of this, with the creation of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in the USA, Canada and Latin America of a few years ago (whose mandate is to unite all Orthodox churches in these territories into three jurisdictions), discussions regarding the ROEA (OCA) and ROAA (BOR) unity\/merger issue are now obsolete, particularly after 4 years of total inactivity.\u00a0 Therefore, the May 2012 Administrator article remains valid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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