Δευτέρα 25 Ιουνίου 2018

INFORMAL TALKS BETWEEN THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE AND THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION




The informal talks between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Anglican Communion took place on 19 June 2018 at the Theological School of Halki, near Istanbul. The delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate consisted of Metropolitan Athenagoras of Belgium and Exarch of the Netherlands and Luxembourg (Orthodox co-chair of the International Commission of the Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue), Archbishop Job of Telmessos, and Protopresbyter Christos Christakis (Orthodox co-secretary of that Commission). The Anglican Communion was represented by the Anglican co-president, Archbishop Richard Clarke, head of the Anglican Church of Ireland, Bishops Nigel Stock and Michael Lewis and Reverend Canons Dr. Will Adam and Dr. John Gibaut. The two delegations dealt with the current issues of both the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Anglican Communion as well as other theological and social issues of common interest.