Great and Holy Council declares unity of the Orthodox Church
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
The main priority of the Great and Holy Council was to declare the unity of the Orthodox Churches, the Council said in a message published after the end of its six-day work in Kolymvari, Crete.
“Our Church, responding to its obligation to testify the true and apostolic faith, attaches great importance to dialogue mainly with heterodox Christians. In this way, the rest of the Christendom understands accurately the authenticity of the Orthodox tradition, the value of patristic teaching, the experience of the mass and the faith of the Orthodox,” the message says.
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew made the same call for unity in a speech at the Agios Apostolos and Pavlos Church earlier in Chania. “The Great and Holy Council showed that the one holy catholic and apostolic church united in faith in the world, embodies and expresses authentically the central ecclesiological authority and truth of conciliarity; that it lives as a council.”
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