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Volume 6 Number 26 - Tuesday, June 29th, 2004	A Publication of the ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN LAITY

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Published by Stetson University Russia Religion News, June 26, 2004

Commissions on Orthodox unification end first session

MEETING OF COMMISSIONS FROM RPTsMP AND ROCOR FOR RESTORING CHURCH UNITY CONDUCTED "IN SPIRIT OF LOVE AND PEACE"

Portal-credo.ru, 25 June 2004 - The first joint session of the commissions of the Russian Orthodox church of the Moscow patriarchate (RPTsMP) and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) meeting for restoring ecclesiastical unity was held from 22 to 24 June in Moscow with success.

"The work of the commissions was productive and occurred in a spirit of love and peace. Agreed suggestions were worked out, which will be presented to the hierarchy of the Moscow patriarchate and the church abroad," RIA Novosti was told today at the Department of External Church Relations (OVTsS) of RPTsMP. Details of the suggestions still have not been made public.

The commissions discussed a number of questions in accordance with agreements reached in may during the official visit to Russia of a ROCOR delegation headed by its primate Metropolitan Laurus. (Lavr). At that time the questions required the most common attention were the topics of relations between the church and the state, relations with other confessions, and the question of the autonomy of the foreign part of the Russian church.

Members of the commissions, according to their own statements, "will raise prayers to the Lord God and his Most-holy Mother with gratitude for the possibility of working fruitfully for overcoming the sad divisions that befell the Russian Orthodox church as a result of the bolshevik revolution." They are asking the Lord "to bless the continuation of their labors for the good of the holy church of Christ and the Orthodox Russian people, both in the fatherland and in diaspora."

The commission of ROCOR at the negotiations with RPTsMP was headed by Archbishop of Berlin and Germany Mark. The members of the commission included Bishop of Geneva Ambrose, Archimandrite Luke Murianka, Archpriest Georgy Larin, and Archpriest Alexander Lebedev.

The commission of the Moscow patriarchate was headed by Archbishop of Korsun Innokenty. Its members included the rector of the Moscow Ecclesiastical Academy Archbishop of Vereisk Evgeny, the abbot of the Presentation monastery Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov, Archpriest Vladislav Tsypin, and Archpriest Nikolai Balashov. (tr. by PDS)

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