Press-Conference “Results of Orthodox Primates’ Meeting and Perspectives of Reunification of Ukrainian Orthodoxy” Started at UNIAN
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The participants of the conference who have just come back from Constantinople: |
Meeting of the Primates of the Local Orthodox Churches
On October 10-12, 2008 at the Cathedral of St. George in the Phanar (Turkey, Istanbul) the assembly of the Primates of Local Orthodox Churches was held. In the meeting of year 2008 took part the Primates of the Churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Russia, Cyprus, Greece, Albania and Czech lands and Slovakia, as well as the plenipotentiary representatives of the Churches of Georgia, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and Poland. Thus, all the Orthodox Churches were represented at the meeting. The Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine and the delegation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church were invited and took part in the meeting.
The meeting of the Primates of Orthodox Churches was held within the framework of the Holy Apostle Paul's year and focused upon discussion of the internal problems of the Orthodox Church as well as the problems of the modern world. The main subject of the meeting was the issue of unity of the Orthodox Church. His All Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew I focused on the problem at the Primate's assembly.
The culmination point of the meeting and the testimony of unity of the Orthodox world became the common Liturgy celebrated on October 12, at the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. Georges in the Phanar. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided over this Liturgy. Concelebrating to His All-Holiness were the Primates of the Orthodox Churches, heads of the Churches' delegations, and the Primate of the UOC His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr. The Message of the Primates of the Local Orthodox Churches was an outcome of the brotherly theological and liturgical communion.
The Message of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches to Orthodox people and all humanity
The heads of the Orthodox Churches of the world specified the problems and challenges confronting today the humanity and the Orthodox Church, among them are:
- internal contradictions of the Orthodox Church on ideological and ethnophyletic grounds;
- problems of estrangement, splits and conflicts between people and nations;
- ecological problems;
- secularisation problem;
- the gap between the poor and the rich and the consumerist society;
- the limits of the scientific cognition and the problems of bioethics;
- family and youth problems.
Having outlined the main problems of the church and social life, the Primates reaffirmed "from the See of the First-Throne among the Churches":
а) their obligation to safeguard the unity of the Orthodox Church;
б) their desire for the swift healing of every canonical anomaly;
в) our desire to continue the theological dialogues with other Christians, as well as the interreligious dialogue;
г) their support for the initiatives for the protection of the natural environment;
д) their decision to proceed with the necessary actions, in order to form an Inter-Orthodox Committee to study issues of bioethics.
The Primates of the Orthodox Churches also welcomed the proposition of the Ecumenical Church to convene Panorthodox Consultations in 2009 on the subject of the Orthodox diasporas and for the continuation of preparations for the Holy and Great Council.
The Address of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr to the Primates of the Orthodox Churches and the Perspectives of Reunification of the Ukrainian Orthodoxy
At the meeting of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches in the Phanar His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr on behalf of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church addressed the letter to each Primate of Local Orthodox Church with a request to facilitate collegially the solution of the problems of the Ukrainian Orthodoxy.
On its part the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has testified its readiness to take part in the all-church discussion of the church schism in Ukraine and addressed with request to all the Primates to support the efforts of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church aimed at restoration of the church unity in our country and to work out the standpoint common for all the Local Orthodox Churches on the ways of overcoming the church splits in Ukraine.
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