Posted on 04/29/2005 10:24:26 PM PDT by sionnsar
Ecumenical delegations from the Vatican and the Anglican Communion Office will launch ‘Seattle Statement’ 16 May
(ACNS) An international delegation of Anglicans and Roman
Catholics will convene in Seattle, USA, 16 May to release a joint statement of understanding on the place of Mary in the doctrine and life of the Church. The document, entitled Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ, represents the first major agreed statement by a formal international dialogue between two Christian world communions on this important aspect of Christian faith and devotion.
The statement draws together the fruits of five years of work by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC), a dialogue officially sponsored by the Anglican Consultative Council and by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
As the work of ARCIC, the text is not an authoritative declaration by the Roman Catholic Church or the Anglican Communion. With its publication, the statement will be offered for study and evaluation by the churches. The book has been attractively published by Continuum/Morehouse Publishing USA/UK.
The document is referred to as the ‘Seattle Statement’ because members of ARCIC completed it in Seattle during their February 2004 meeting. The theologians who constitute the commission include bishops, clergy, religious and laypersons from 10 different countries.
The May 16 event will be hosted by Seattle Archbishop Alexander J Brunett, Roman Catholic co-chair of ARCIC. Archbishop Brunett will be joined by his Anglican co-chair, Archbishop Peter Carnley, Primate of the Anglican Church of Australia, for the statement release. The Revd Don Bolen (Vatican) and the Revd Canon Gregory Cameron (Anglican Communion), co-secretaries of ARCIC will also be present.
A news conference is scheduled for 10am, 16 May, in Seattle at 910 Marion St to announce the publication of the agreed statement.
"It is my recollection that my Archbishop concluded letters of communion with the Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, but I do not know the date other than it was before 1995."
Trust me on this one. If your Archbishop were in communion with the Ecumenical Patriarch, he'd be in communion with the rest of the canonical Orthodox Patriarchs and Bishops and on Sundays you'd all, every last parish of you, be celebrating the Liturgy of St. John Chrysostomos. If not, he's not.
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