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| Volume 6 Number 45 - Tuesday, November 9th, 2004 |
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On September 21, the Ecumenical Association of “Saint Alban and Saint Sergius” was launched by members of the Holy Synod, Anglican bishops, professors and Orthodox and Anglican faithful involved in the social-charitable work of the Romanian Orthodox Church and in that of the Anglican Church. The Association of “Saint Alban and Saint Sergius” was set up in 1928 as an ecumenical forum designed to facilitate a greater knowledge and rapprochement, personal relations, and cultural and spiritual exchanges between the Eastern and the Western Churches, especially between Orthodox and Anglicans. Located in the Great Britain, the association functions with the blessing of the Orthodox, Anglican and Roman Catholic religious authorities. Its presidents are His Eminence Gregorios, Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain (Ecumenical Patriarchate) and His Grace Dr. Richard Chartre, Bishop of London. The Association has branches in Greece, Russia, Bulgaria and Serbia, all with the same purpose: to promote the Christian unity and ecumenical dialogue as well as to achieve some common social projects of Eastern and Western Christians. In November 2003, during a meeting between His Beatitude Teoctist and His Grace Dr. David Hope, Archbishop of York, both parties affirmed their desire for cooperation between the Romanian Orthodox Church and the Anglican Church, especially in the charitable field, an example in this regard being the involvement of the Anglicans in the “Save the Children” Foundation. The Primate of the Romanian Orthodox Church proposed the resumption and concretization of an older project of collaboration between the Romanian Orthodox Church and the Anglican Church, namely the setting up in Bucharest of a center for children with special needs, patronized by both Churches.
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