‘The State of Affairs in the Family of the Local Orthodox Churches is Cause for Great Concern’ – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia

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OCP News Service – 18/9/21

Moscow-Russia: A conference titled ‘World Orthodoxy: Primacy and Conciliarity in the Light of Orthodox Dogmatic Teaching’ conference was opened at the St. Sergius Hall of Christ the Saviour Cathedral on the 16th of September 2021.

Patriarch Kiril of Moscow and All Russia delivered a speech at the opening of the conference. The Primate of the Russian Church stated that “The state of affairs in the family of the Local Orthodox Churches is cause for great concern. The situation that has arisen in the Orthodox Church we may judge to be a crisis. That it is a crisis is borne out by the serious differences among the Orthodox on how we understand the order of Universal Orthodoxy, what we mean by primacy and conciliarity and how we define the relationship between ecclesiastical order with what is done in the sphere of ecclesiastical administration. The main objective of the conference is to analyze and identify the ecclesiological reasons for the present crisis”.

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The conference is attended by archpastors, clergy, members of the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission, representatives of theological schools of the Russian Orthodox Church and guests from local Orthodox Churches.

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OCP News Service