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Oriental and Eastern Orthodox: questions
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11-10-2006, 01:33 PM
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Yes, I have.
I initially worshipped with the Russian Orthodox Church. I got as far as asking to be received but there seemed to be some problem with this - I put it down to the fact that the EO churches had an informal agreement at the time(post synod vote to ordain women as priests) with the CE not to ordain clergy. As a CE Reader some EO may well have regarded me as clergy, which of course I wasn't. Providentially I found the OCBI soon to become BOC. I joined because they were by then canonical, they worshipped in English, and they were not concerned with those sort of politics. My dealings woith EO Christians have for the most part been cordial but I have noticed from time to time a tendency for them to dismiss the BOC as heretical in spite of clear evidence to the contrary and the agreed theological statements. Some, a very few, have been positively hostile. The Oriental Orthodox seem to me to be far more interested in a British Orthodox Church precisely because they are not, in my opinion, playing the same political games mentioned above. But by far the greater problem is convincing the EO that their orthodoxy is exactly the same as ours. In Christ, Michael |
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