[HarleyD]

For example, you would rather a lost person in an Apostolic country remain lost if there was even a 0.0001% chance that he would ever meet and then follow an Orthodox priest than have me witness to him today. If that isn't a claim of the highest authority and rulership I don't know what is.

Good question FK. There is an interesting article called 3,000 Assyrians Received into the Catholic Church. Would the Orthodox simply dismiss Orthodox people moving to Catholicism? Not according to some posts I'm reading.

[stfassisi]

“”There is an interesting article called 3,000 Assyrians Received into the Catholic Church. Would the Orthodox simply dismiss Orthodox people moving to Catholicism?””

If the article read that 3000 Western Catholic's were received into the the Orthodox faith I would still rejoice in their faith in our Eucharistic Lord.

If it read that any Catholic, eastern or western left the church to become a protestant ,I would be willing to sacrifice for them to return to Eucharist in the Eastern or Western Catholic faith

[kosta50]

There is an interesting article called 3,000 Assyrians Received into the Catholic Church. Would the Orthodox simply dismiss Orthodox people moving to Catholicism? Not according to some posts I'm reading.

The Orthodox Church would break communion with any bishop who endorsed papal primacy formulated as supremacy in jurisdiction over other bishops.

But I would rather see Assyrian Church become fully integrated into the Church of the West than remain a non-Chacedonian Nestorian Church whose Christology is gravely flawed.

[Forest Keeper]

There is an interesting article called 3,000 Assyrians Received into the Catholic Church. Would the Orthodox simply dismiss Orthodox people moving to Catholicism? Not according to some posts I'm reading.

Thanks much for the thread link, it is right on point. The article was very interesting, as were the comments. The general tone I took from them is that the Orthodox are not particularly interested in unifying. Not to say there is any malice or anything, just no interest. It appears they do consider it "loss" when Orthodox convert to Catholicism. It's interesting to compare, since if someone from my Bible-believing SBC church moved to another Bible-believing church, such as a Reformed Presbyterian church, there would be no "loss".