European Ecumenical Assembly opens in Romania
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Sibiu, Sep. 4, 2007 (CWNews.com) - More than 2,000 delegates representing European Christian groups met in Sibiu, Romania, on September 4 to open the 3rd European Ecumenical Assembly.
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople offered the opening prayer for the assembly, which will continue through Sunday, September 9. The gathering is co-hosted by the Conference of European Churches and the (Catholic) Council of European Bishops' Conferences. Together, those two groups represent most of the Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Anglican churches of Europe.
Among the most prominent delegates to the meeting in Sibiu are Cardinal Walter Kasper (bio - news), the president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity; Metropolitan Kirll of Smolensk, the chief ecumenical officer of the Russian Orthodox Church; and Rev. Samuel Kobia, the general secretary of the World Council of Churches. Also in attendance, and scheduled to address the assembly, are José Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Council; and Terry Davis, the EC secretary general.
The European Ecumenical Assembly is held once each decade. The first such gathering took place in Basel, Switzerland, in 1989; in 1997 the meeting was held in Graz, Austria. This week's meeting is the first to be scheduled in a predominantly Orthodox country.
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