Building on a close relationship built over the years, Bishop Charles Keyser, suffragan bishop for the Armed Forces, welcomed a delegation from the Russian Orthodox Church for an October tour of military installations and prison chaplaincies in the United States.
"Representatives of the Episcopal Church in the United States recently met with a delegation from the Russian Orthodox Church to seek ways to improve relations and co-operation between them. The meeting was a follow-up to a conversation last year between the Russian patriarch and the Episcopal church's presiding bishop".
"Representatives of the Episcopal Church in the United States recently met with a delegation from the Russian Orthodox Church to seek ways to improve relations and co-operation between them. The meeting was a follow-up to a conversation last year between the Russian patriarch and the Episcopal church's presiding bishop".
An estimated 60 million Russian Orthodox Christians and some 2.5 million Episcopalians are blessed by a 200-year history of ecumenical cooperation and friendship.
Description of a visit to Russia by the author whose parish has just launched a partnership with a Russian Orthodox parish at Novoya Derevna, outside of Moscow.
Author is Associate Rector of St. Alban's Episcopal Church in Washington DC. Reprinted with permission from "Trinity News", New York, NY, U.S.A.
Papers from Episcopal Church authors, and supplementary material, for the fourth meeting of the Episcopal Church and Russian Orthodox Churches. This meeting, known as the Moscow Consultation, was held 22-27 June 1992, on the subject of bishops. Participants agreed in advance that neither the ordination of women to the episcopate nor the papacy would be considered.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Preface by the Editor / J. Robert Wright -- Setting the Context for the Papers that Follow / Suzanne Massie -- The Origins of the Episcopate and Episcopal Ministry in the Early Church / J. Robert Wright -- Theological Reflections on the Patristic Development of Episcopal Ministry / Mark Dyer -- Bishops, Succession, and the Apostolicity of the Church / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Introducing "The Ministry of Bishops: A Study Document Authorized by the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church" / Richard F. Grein -- Teachers and Evangelists for the Equipment of the Saints : Prayer Book Doctrine Concerning the Bishop as Teacher, Evangelizer, and Focus of Unity / Charles P. Price -- The Practice of Episcopal Ministry in the Episcopal Church from a Bishop's Point of View / Roger J. White -- "And Who is My Bishop ?" : A Priest's Response to Bishop White / Kortright Davis -- Official Communique of 27 June 1992 -- Joint Working Document - Appendix : Report on the Teaching Ministry of Bishops in the Church of England / J. Robert Wright.
Papers from Episcopal Church authors, and supplementary material, for the fourth meeting of the Episcopal Church and Russian Orthodox Churches. This meeting, known as the Moscow Consultation, was held 22-27 June 1992, on the subject of bishops. Participants agreed in advance that neither the ordination of women to the episcopate nor the papacy would be considered.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Preface by the Editor / J. Robert Wright -- Setting the Context for the Papers that Follow / Suzanne Massie -- The Origins of the Episcopate and Episcopal Ministry in the Early Church / J. Robert Wright -- Theological Reflections on the Patristic Development of Episcopal Ministry / Mark Dyer -- Bishops, Succession, and the Apostolicity of the Church / Richard A. Norris, Jr. -- Introducing "The Ministry of Bishops: A Study Document Authorized by the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church" / Richard F. Grein -- Teachers and Evangelists for the Equipment of the Saints : Prayer Book Doctrine Concerning the Bishop as Teacher, Evangelizer, and Focus of Unity / Charles P. Price -- The Practice of Episcopal Ministry in the Episcopal Church from a Bishop's Point of View / Roger J. White -- "And Who is My Bishop ?" : A Priest's Response to Bishop White / Kortright Davis -- Official Communique of 27 June 1992 -- Joint Working Document - Appendix : Report on the Teaching Ministry of Bishops in the Church of England / J. Robert Wright.
"The US Episcopal church (ECUSA) has announced a $100,000 grant to the Russian Orthodox church as a symbol of friendship and to help the church rebuild after years of communism". Patriarch Aleksy II expressed concerns about ecumenism and "the extreme feminist views and some other radical ideas born in the Anglican tradition and some protestant churches and generated by today's social and cultural context, but remaining outside the apostolic tradition".