В.В. Симонов Summary The proposed Manual for the first time in Russian scientific and educational literature sets out a common history of Christianity, which is considered from the point of view of the historical dynamics of Church organizational and doctrinal unity. The general logic of the material exposure is determined by issues that seem to authors fundamental for specific historical periods: «What (vol. l, pt. 1), how (vol. 1, pt. 2), and where (vol. 2, pt. 1) to believe in order to be saved – or does it even need to believe? (vol. 2, pt. 2)». Volume 1 of the Manual covers the period from the foundation of the Church to the formation of the prerequisites of the Protestant Reformation – the time of sharp doctrinal discussions that had significant implications on the organizational structure of the institutional Christian Church. Part 2 of this volume in a broad historical context highlights the issues related to the development of Church orthodoxy and the formation of various deviations from it. Throughout the millennium considered dogmatic differences introduce an element of instability in the universalist claim of Christianity, which in the orga­nizational field brought to many Church divisions on confessional lines. The main question of the period: «How to believe in order to be saved?» IV-VI centuries was the time when Christianity had moved from position of persecuted by all «forbidden» religion to position of an equal initially, and thenthe state religion of the Roman Empire. Paganism was finally disappearing. It was the time of significant changes in the organizational structure of the Christian Church, based on the principle of hierarchy: strengthening of the system of terri­torial administration with sole episcopal governing of dioceses with the recogni­tion of the leading role of Church Councils (Ecumenical and Local) as the top col­legiate Church government institutions. At the same time the unity of the Church doctrine and organizational structure was threatened by early heresies – i.e. deviations from the general Church doctrine, touched the very Christian faith (Donatism, Arianism). Direct threat to the organi­zational unity of the Church represented the teachings of the Alexandrian presbyter Arius on μοια – subordination of God the Son to God the Father, on which basis appeared some influential Church groups opposed to the bishops, who professed and developed the «orthodox» doctrine, consecrated by Church tradition. Later, in V-VI cent., the main issues of concern to the Church were questions about the connection of the divine and the human in the hypostasis of God the Son, and, re­spectively, on the content of the incarnation of the Logos (Word of God).

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On the situation caused by the refusal of several local Orthodox Churches to participate in the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church A Russian Orthodox Church Website About Pages About %20%20 Donate Contact Us Проекты «Правмира» Pravmir.ru Матроны.RU Не инвалид.RU Pravmir.com Форум Книги Лекторий Благотворительность Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation News В данной категории нет материалов. Family Before marriage Bringing up children Children's page Divorce In the Family What is Christian Love in Marriage? Family Life and Spiritual Warfare Should People Limit Marital Relations in Lent? Pastoral Advice Library Holy Fathers Lives of Saints New Russian Martyrs Other Media Sermons, Lectures The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Do We Have A Reaction To The Gospel? What Does the Cross Mean for us Today? Our Faith History of Christianity Icons In the Church Liturgical Life Missionary work Orthodoxy around the World Prayers Religions Sacraments Social Life Theology “Le monde entier reste silencieux au sujet de l’Artsakh” : 120 000… “The whole world is silent about Artsakh.” 120,000 people are in the blockade,… The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Calendar Fasting Feasts The Tree Heals the Tree The Lights of an Approaching Rescue Preparing the Way of the Lord in our Own Lives family В данной категории нет материалов. Multimedia Contact us Искать Искать On the situation caused by the refusal of several local Orthodox Churches to participate in the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church Source: DECR Natalya Mihailova 13 June 2016 Photo: http://www.patriarchia.ru The Georgian Orthodox Church will not take part in the Pan-Orthodox Council The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America issues Statement, Petitions on the Holy and Great Council Serbian Orthodox Church refuses to participate in Pan-Orthodox Council Statement of the Secretariat of the Antiochian Holy Synod Bulgarian Church Demands a Postponement of the Pan-Orthodox Council Statement of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church   For many decades the Russian Orthodox Church took and continues to take an active part in the preparation of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church. Since the 1 st Pan-Orthodox Conference in 1961 on Rhodes, the outstanding hierarchs and the best theologians of our Church have made their contribution to the work on a great number of the Council’s topics, including those which were not to be included later in the agenda of the Holy and Great Council. For the sake of the earliest convocation of the Council, the Russian Orthodox Church has repeatedly re-affirmed her readiness to achieve decisions mutually acceptable for all the participants in the pre-Council process, even if such decisions diverted from the already agreed rules of the Council’s preparation.

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Ministry of the Laity A Russian Orthodox Church Website About Pages About %20%20 Donate Contact Us Проекты «Правмира» Pravmir.ru Матроны.RU Не инвалид.RU Pravmir.com Форум Книги Лекторий Благотворительность Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation News В данной категории нет материалов. Family Before marriage Bringing up children Children's page Divorce In the Family What is Christian Love in Marriage? Family Life and Spiritual Warfare Should People Limit Marital Relations in Lent? Pastoral Advice Library Holy Fathers Lives of Saints New Russian Martyrs Other Media Sermons, Lectures The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Do We Have A Reaction To The Gospel? What Does the Cross Mean for us Today? Our Faith History of Christianity Icons In the Church Liturgical Life Missionary work Orthodoxy around the World Prayers Religions Sacraments Social Life Theology “Le monde entier reste silencieux au sujet de l’Artsakh” : 120 000… “The whole world is silent about Artsakh.” 120,000 people are in the blockade,… The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Calendar Fasting Feasts The Tree Heals the Tree The Lights of an Approaching Rescue Preparing the Way of the Lord in our Own Lives family В данной категории нет материалов. Multimedia Contact us Искать Искать Ministry of the Laity Life in the Church, to which every Christian is called, is a permanent ministry, in which the Christian serves God through the Church, and serves the Church itself. " For the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many, " (Mark 10:45; cf. Matt. 20:28.) This was the new principle, hitherto unknown to human society, which was the basis of the Church " s life. Fr N. Afanassieff 18 January 2010 Source: All Saints of Alaska Orthodox Church    As the title of this article shows, it confines itself to the ministry of the laity within the Church; it does not deal with the very varied forms of lay ministry outside the Church. I recognize the disadvantages involved in restricting my subject in this way, but in my view the ministry of the laity within the Church is much more important than their ministry outside it, because the latter is to a large extent determined by the former. Moreover, the question of the ministry of the laity outside the Church is not a complicated problem for the Orthodox conscience. The Orthodox Church has always accepted and fully approved the principle of the laity undertaking missionary work, education, scientific and social work. Most of the time the Orthodox Church left the laity almost complete freedom in this field of their activity, merely insisting on a minimum of supervision from the ecclesiastical hierarchy. 

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Eucharist, Bishop, Church: The Unity of the Church in the Divine Eucharist and the Bishop During the First Three Centuries Источник Preface Although this work is historical in its method and content, it is not a product of historical curiosity. At a time when church unity occupies an increasingly central place in theological study, the contribution of our theology is required not simply as an academic demand, but also a fundamental debt owed to the Church. In order to fulfill the demand and pay the debt, our theology can no longer fall back on the sources of its own confessional riches. The gradual abandonment of the confessional mentality of past generations and the recognition of the need for our theology to be an expression not of one confession but of the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church herself, now directs the course of theological study towards the sources of the ancient undivided Church. A Church which, in spite of all the disputes and conflicts by which she was often shaken, was always well aware of what is meant by the catholic consciousness of the Church. This holds true, most especially for the study of the unity of the Church which aims to provide our divided Christian world with that supra-confessional thread which will help it to rediscover and actualize its unity through the midst of its various divisions. For those coming from the Orthodox tradition, a reliable method of turning towards the sources of the ancient undivided Church is through study of the liturgical life of our Church. The reproach leveled at our Church that she has remained through the centuries a “community of worship” today, proves to be the best guarantee of a sure route back to the consciousness of the ancient undivided Church. For the liturgical life of our Church which is characterized by its conservatism and traditional character has not succumbed to overloading with non-essential later elements, but continues to reflect in a changing contemporary world the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church of every age, worshipping in one body.

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The Church and Weapons A Russian Orthodox Church Website About Pages About %20%20 Donate Contact Us Проекты «Правмира» Pravmir.ru Матроны.RU Не инвалид.RU Pravmir.com Форум Книги Лекторий Благотворительность Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation News В данной категории нет материалов. Family Before marriage Bringing up children Children's page Divorce In the Family What is Christian Love in Marriage? Family Life and Spiritual Warfare Should People Limit Marital Relations in Lent? Pastoral Advice Library Holy Fathers Lives of Saints New Russian Martyrs Other Media Sermons, Lectures The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Do We Have A Reaction To The Gospel? What Does the Cross Mean for us Today? Our Faith History of Christianity Icons In the Church Liturgical Life Missionary work Orthodoxy around the World Prayers Religions Sacraments Social Life Theology “Le monde entier reste silencieux au sujet de l’Artsakh” : 120 000… “The whole world is silent about Artsakh.” 120,000 people are in the blockade,… The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Calendar Fasting Feasts The Tree Heals the Tree The Lights of an Approaching Rescue Preparing the Way of the Lord in our Own Lives family В данной категории нет материалов. Multimedia Contact us Искать Искать The Church and Weapons Source: OrthoCuban Whether we agree with the blessing of weapons or not, we need to admit that in both Jewish and Christian history, there is a long history of the blessing of weapons. Priest Ernesto Obregon 22 April 2015 A Roman Catholic Priest, an Eastern Orthodox Priest, a Protestant Pastor, and two Jewish Rabbis were blessing weapons. Does that sound like the beginning of a joke? But, see the images above for an example of each of them. But, wait, OK, I will tell you one joke. I do not know from where it comes. The two thousand member church was filled to overflowing capacity one Sunday morning. The preacher was ready to start the sermon when two men, dressed in long black coats and black hats entered thru the rear of the church. One of the two men walked to the middle of the church while the other stayed at the back of the church. They both then reached under their coats and withdrew automatic weapons. The one in the middle announced, “Everyone willing to take a bullet for Jesus stay in your seats!” Naturally, the pews emptied, followed by the choir. The deacons ran out the door, followed by the choir director and the assistant pastor. After a few moments, there were about twenty people left sitting in the church. The preacher was holding steady in the pulpit. The men put their weapons away and said, gently, to the preacher, “All right, pastor, the hypocrites are gone now. You may begin the service.”

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Metropolitan Hilarion: the Patriarchate of Constantinople has lost the Right to be Called the Coordinating Center for the Orthodox Church A Russian Orthodox Church Website About Pages About %20%20 Donate Contact Us Проекты «Правмира» Pravmir.ru Матроны.RU Не инвалид.RU Pravmir.com Форум Книги Лекторий Благотворительность Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation News В данной категории нет материалов. Family Before marriage Bringing up children Children's page Divorce In the Family What is Christian Love in Marriage? Family Life and Spiritual Warfare Should People Limit Marital Relations in Lent? Pastoral Advice Library Holy Fathers Lives of Saints New Russian Martyrs Other Media Sermons, Lectures The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Do We Have A Reaction To The Gospel? What Does the Cross Mean for us Today? Our Faith History of Christianity Icons In the Church Liturgical Life Missionary work Orthodoxy around the World Prayers Religions Sacraments Social Life Theology “Le monde entier reste silencieux au sujet de l’Artsakh” : 120 000… “The whole world is silent about Artsakh.” 120,000 people are in the blockade,… The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Calendar Fasting Feasts The Tree Heals the Tree The Lights of an Approaching Rescue Preparing the Way of the Lord in our Own Lives family В данной категории нет материалов. Multimedia Contact us Искать Искать Metropolitan Hilarion: the Patriarchate of Constantinople has lost the Right to be Called the Coordinating Center for the Orthodox Church Source: DECR Pravmir.com team 17 October 2018 Statement of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia Metropolitan Hilarion: The fact that the Patriarchate of Constantinople Has Recognized a Schismatic Structure Means for us that it Itself is Now in Schism Statement of the ROC Holy Synod Regarding the Encroachment of the Patriarchate of Constantinople on the Canonical Territory of the Russian Church The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has Considered it Impossible to Remain in the Eucharistic Communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople Patriarch Kirill Believes Ukrainian Orthodox Church will Withstand the Pressure of Secular Authorities ‘The way to returning from a schism is always open and this way lies through repentance’ said Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relation, speaking in the Big Game analytical TV program about ways of coming out of the situation caused by the anti-canonical actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople because of which the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, on October 15, 2018, had to recognize as impossible to remain any further in the Eucharistic communion with it.

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‘Magnificent’ 1,500 Year-Old Baptismal Font is Discovered in Church at Birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem A Russian Orthodox Church Website About Pages About %20%20 Donate Contact Us Проекты «Правмира» Pravmir.ru Матроны.RU Не инвалид.RU Pravmir.com Форум Книги Лекторий Благотворительность Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation News В данной категории нет материалов. Family Before marriage Bringing up children Children's page Divorce In the Family What is Christian Love in Marriage? Family Life and Spiritual Warfare Should People Limit Marital Relations in Lent? Pastoral Advice Library Holy Fathers Lives of Saints New Russian Martyrs Other Media Sermons, Lectures The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Do We Have A Reaction To The Gospel? What Does the Cross Mean for us Today? Our Faith History of Christianity Icons In the Church Liturgical Life Missionary work Orthodoxy around the World Prayers Religions Sacraments Social Life Theology “Le monde entier reste silencieux au sujet de l’Artsakh” : 120 000… “The whole world is silent about Artsakh.” 120,000 people are in the blockade,… The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Calendar Fasting Feasts The Tree Heals the Tree The Lights of an Approaching Rescue Preparing the Way of the Lord in our Own Lives family В данной категории нет материалов. Multimedia Contact us Искать Искать ‘Magnificent’ 1,500 Year-Old Baptismal Font is Discovered in Church at Birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem Source: Basilica.ro The discovery of a baptismal font during the restoration work of the Church of the Nativity in the biblical city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank will pave the way to learn more about the history of the church, announced on Saturday, June 22, Ziad al-Bandak, head of the Presidential Committee for the Restoration of the Church of the Nativity. Gheorghe Anghel 29 June 2019 Christmas Divine Liturgy in Bethlehem to be held without the presence of believers Archaeologists May Have Found Biblical Town Emmaus, where Christ Appeared after His Resurrection The Site of the Birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem Removed from the List of World Heritage in Danger The Spirit and Baptismal Nature of Confession Baptismal Sponsorship, Past and Present He said at a press conference held at the Church that “during the restoration work of the baptismal font in the southern corridor of the church, the southern church wing, and during the preliminary archaeological studies and analysis of the baptismal stone that precedes the restoration work, another circular baptismal font was discovered hidden inside the existing octagonal baptismal font made of stone similar to the stone of the columns.”

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What is Orthodoxy? A Russian Orthodox Church Website About Pages About %20%20 Donate Contact Us Проекты «Правмира» Pravmir.ru Матроны.RU Не инвалид.RU Pravmir.com Форум Книги Лекторий Благотворительность Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation News В данной категории нет материалов. Family Before marriage Bringing up children Children's page Divorce In the Family What is Christian Love in Marriage? Family Life and Spiritual Warfare Should People Limit Marital Relations in Lent? Pastoral Advice Library Holy Fathers Lives of Saints New Russian Martyrs Other Media Sermons, Lectures The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Do We Have A Reaction To The Gospel? What Does the Cross Mean for us Today? Our Faith History of Christianity Icons In the Church Liturgical Life Missionary work Orthodoxy around the World Prayers Religions Sacraments Social Life Theology “Le monde entier reste silencieux au sujet de l’Artsakh” : 120 000… “The whole world is silent about Artsakh.” 120,000 people are in the blockade,… The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Calendar Fasting Feasts The Tree Heals the Tree The Lights of an Approaching Rescue Preparing the Way of the Lord in our Own Lives family В данной категории нет материалов. Multimedia Contact us Искать Искать What is Orthodoxy? To be in the Church, we must live the life of the Church—with its fasts and feasts, its services and sacraments—all has been established for our benefit. Every time we disobey the Church, every time we choose not to attend a service, every time we give up the fast to please the demands of our bellies—we continue to cut the very fabric that connects us to the Church. To be God’s children, we must become part of God’s family. Priest Sergei Sveshnikov 07 March 2009 On the first Sunday of Great Lent we celebrate the Triumph of Orthodoxy, a feast that was established in the year 842 to mark the final defeat of the Iconoclast heresy.  In issuing a decree to celebrate the Sunday of Orthodoxy, the Synod of Constantinople wished to specifically commit the restoration of holy icons and the triumph of Orthodox Christology to the memory of the Church.  During the eleven centuries that have followed since that day, the feast has come to be celebrated as the triumph of Orthodoxy over all heresies that have troubled the Church.  Within the solemn proclamation of the Anathema which is heard on this day in every Orthodox cathedral, the Church in its fullness confirms the faith of the Fathers and rejects all heresies of the past and present.  But the meaning of this feast is not in the rejection of false teaching from our midst, but in the true triumph of Orthodoxy in our hearts.

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Metropolitan Hilarion: The Church bears special responsibility today A Russian Orthodox Church Website About Pages About %20%20 Donate Contact Us Проекты «Правмира» Pravmir.ru Матроны.RU Не инвалид.RU Pravmir.com Форум Книги Лекторий Благотворительность Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation News В данной категории нет материалов. Family Before marriage Bringing up children Children's page Divorce In the Family What is Christian Love in Marriage? Family Life and Spiritual Warfare Should People Limit Marital Relations in Lent? Pastoral Advice Library Holy Fathers Lives of Saints New Russian Martyrs Other Media Sermons, Lectures The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Do We Have A Reaction To The Gospel? What Does the Cross Mean for us Today? Our Faith History of Christianity Icons In the Church Liturgical Life Missionary work Orthodoxy around the World Prayers Religions Sacraments Social Life Theology “Le monde entier reste silencieux au sujet de l’Artsakh” : 120 000… “The whole world is silent about Artsakh.” 120,000 people are in the blockade,… The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Calendar Fasting Feasts The Tree Heals the Tree The Lights of an Approaching Rescue Preparing the Way of the Lord in our Own Lives family В данной категории нет материалов. Multimedia Contact us Искать Искать Metropolitan Hilarion: The Church bears special responsibility today Source: DECR Today the Church can say its strong reconciling word, addressing it to all the sides of the conflict without being involved in a polemic about its causes and nature, without dividing people into the right and the wrong. Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) 18 August 2014 After the enthronement celebration at the Kiev Laura of the Caves, during which Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk voiced a patriarchal letter of recognition to the new Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Onufry of Kiev and All Ukraine, he shared his thoughts about the mission of the Church in Ukraine and priority tasks facing its Primate in a talk with Deacon Yevgeny Murzin, a correspondent of the Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate: President of Ukraine meets with Primate of Ukrainian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Hilarion: Responsibility placed on Primate of Ukrainian Orthodox Church is as great as never before Metropolitan Onufriy elected primate of Ukrainian Orthodox Church In each historical era, especially at turning points in history, the Lord calls to the high primatial ministry those who by their life have shown their commitment to Him and His Church. Today we cannot but recall how – in 1992, at a crucial moment for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church when a threat emerged to the unity of Ukrainian Orthodoxy because of a schism – the Council of Bishops unanimously elected His Beatitude Metropolitan Vladimir as the Primate.

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Moscow Patriarchate: female bishops ordination impedes the dialogue between the Orthodox and the Anglicans About Pages About %20%20 Donate Contact Us Проекты «Правмира» Pravmir.ru Матроны.RU Не инвалид.RU Pravmir.com Форум Книги Лекторий Благотворительность Raising Orthodox Children to Orthodox Adulthood The Daily Website on How to be an Orthodox Christian Today Twitter Telegram Parler RSS Donate Navigation News В данной категории нет материалов. Family Before marriage Bringing up children Children's page Divorce In the Family What is Christian Love in Marriage? Family Life and Spiritual Warfare Should People Limit Marital Relations in Lent? Pastoral Advice Library Holy Fathers Lives of Saints New Russian Martyrs Other Media Sermons, Lectures The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Do We Have A Reaction To The Gospel? What Does the Cross Mean for us Today? Our Faith History of Christianity Icons In the Church Liturgical Life Missionary work Orthodoxy around the World Prayers Religions Sacraments Social Life Theology “Le monde entier reste silencieux au sujet de l’Artsakh” : 120 000… “The whole world is silent about Artsakh.” 120,000 people are in the blockade,… The Importance of Patiently Letting Down Our Nets in Obedience Calendar Fasting Feasts The Tree Heals the Tree The Lights of an Approaching Rescue Preparing the Way of the Lord in our Own Lives family В данной категории нет материалов. Multimedia Contact us Искать Искать Statement by Communication Service of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations regarding the decision of the Church of England to allow women to serve as bishops Source: DECR Russian Orthodox Church Natalya Mihailova 18 July 2014 At the session that took place on the 14th of July 2014, the General Synod of the Church of England made a decision allowing women to serve as bishops. The Communication Service of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations is authorized to make the following statement in this regard: A Time of Decision for Members of the Church of England The Russian Orthodox Church has been alarmed and disappointed to learn about the decision of the Church of England to admit women to the episcopate, since the centuries-old relationships between our two Churches had shown possibilities for the Orthodox to recognize the existence of apostolic succession in Anglicanism. As far back as the 19th century, the Anglicans, members of the Eastern Church Association, sought “mutual recognition” of orders between the Orthodox and the Anglican Churches and believed that “both Churches preserved the apostolic continuity and true faith in the Saviour and should accept each other in the full communion of prayers and sacraments.”

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