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To: Kolokotronis
The last time we had any real discussions with the Anglicans, we got mugged.

Funny, that's how we felt every Sunday in our ECUSA parish what with the diversity-this-and-unity-that-Spirit-is-doing-a-new-thing spiel spewed from the pulpit.

10 posted on 06/16/2005 12:27:23 PM PDT by Carolina
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To: Carolina; sionnsar

In fact, the last time any in depth discussions took place between Orthodoxy and Anglicanism was in the late 1800s into about the 1930s. In the end, the Orthodox hierarchs had to issue communications disavowing what the Anglican bishops were saying to the Orthodox faithful which was essentially "You Orthodox can come on over to our Church because your hierarchs say we believe the same things." Our hierarchs got really angry. Unfortunately, for sometime thereafter some Greek and Arab hierarchs especially here in America continued to maintain close ties with the Anglicans. In part I think that came from a deep affection the Greeks had for the English and a desire on the part of the Greeks to be respectable in America and elsewhere...to "pass for white" so to speak. It is a pretty shameful period in my opinion, but perhaps understandable when taken in the context of the times. That attitude is generally dead today, especially among the lower clergy and the laity and the most recent problems in ECUSA have made it even "deader".


11 posted on 06/16/2005 2:49:20 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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