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Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan Damaskinos Co-President (Ecumenical Patriarchate) Prof. Vlassios Phidas Co-Secretary (Greek Orth. Patr. Alexandria) Prof. Athanasios Arvanitis (Ecumenical Patriarchate) Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Peristerion (Ecumenical Patriarchate) Ecumenical Patriarchate Prof. Father George Dragas Greek Orth. Patr. Alexandria Metropolitan Petros of Aksum Greek Orth. Patr. Antioch Metropolitan George Khodr Metropolitan Damaskinos Russian Patriarchate Mr. Nikolai Zabolotski Russian patriarchate Mr. Grigorij Skobej Serbian Patriarchate Prof. Stojan Gosevic Bulgarian Patriarchate Dr. Ivan Zhelev Dimitrov Gregorian Patriarchate Metropolitan David of Sukhum Gregorian Patriarchate Mr. Boris Gagua Church of Cyprus Horepiskopos Barnabas of Salamis Church of Cyprus Prof. Andreas Papavasiliou Church of Greece Metropolitan Meletios of Nikopolis Church of Greece Prof. Father John Romanides Polish Orthodox Church Bishop Jeremiasz of Wroclaw per Metropolitan Damaskinos Orthodox Church of Czechoslovakia Bishop Christoforos of Olomouc Orthodox Church of Czechoslovakia Father Joseph Hauser Finish Orthodox Church Father Heikki Huttunen per Metropolitan Damaskinos Oriental Orthodox Metropolitan Bishoy Co-President (Coptic Orthodox Church) Bishop Dr. Mesrob Krikorian Co-Secretary (Armenian Church of Etchmiadzin) Metropolitan Dr. Paulos Mar Gregorios (Orth. Syrian Church of the East) Dr. Joseph M. Faltas Assistant Co-Secretary (Coptic Orthodox Church) Coptic Orthodox Church Bishop Serapion Coptic Orthodox Church Father Tadros Y. Malaty Syrian Orth. Patr. Antioch Metropolitan Eustathius Matta Rouhm Armenian Church of Etchmiadzin (see co-secretary) Catholicosate of Cilicia Archbishop Aram Keshishian Catholicosate of Cilicia Archbishop Mestrob Ashdjian Orth. Syrian Church of the East Father George Kondortha Ethiopian Orthodox Church Archbishop Abba Gerima of Eluvabur Ethiopian Orthodox Church Rev. Habte Mariam Warkineh 28
GENEVA, September 23 - 28, 1990 Orthodox Centre of Ecumenical Patriarchate - Chambesy Joint-Commission of the Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches RECOMMENDATIONS ON PASTORAL ISSUES 1. The Joint-Commission of the theological dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches, at its meeting at the Orthodox Centre of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, in Chambesy, Geneva from September 23rd to 28th, 1990, received a report from its Joint Pastoral Sub-Committee which had met at the Anba Bishoy Monastery in Egypt from 31st January to 4th February 1990. The report was the starting point for an extended discussion of four types of pastoral issues: I. Relations among our two families of Churches, and our preparation for unity. II. Relations of our Churches with other Christian Churches and our common participation in the ecumenical movement. III. Our common service to the world of suffering, need, injustice and conflicts. IV. Our cooperation in the propagation of our common faith and tradition. I. Relations among our two families of Churches We feel as a Joint Theological Commission that a period of intense preparation of our people to participate in the implementation of our recommendations and in the restoration of communion of our Churches is needed. To this end we propose the following practical procedure. 2. It is important to plan an exchange of visits by our heads of Churches and prelates, priests and lay people of each one of our two families of Churches to the other. 3. It is important to give further encouragement to exchange of theological professors and students among theological institutions of the two families for periods varying from one week to several years. 4. In localities where Churches of the two families co-exist, the congregations should organize participation of one group of people - men, women, youth and children, including priests, where possible from one congregation of one family to a congregation of the other to attend in the latter's eucharistic worship on sundays and feast days. 5. Publications: (a) We need to publish, in the various languages of our Churches, the key documents of this Joint Commission with explanatory notes, in small pamphlets to be sold at a reasonable price in all our congregations. (b) It will be useful also to have brief pamphlets explaining in simple terms the meaning of the Christological terminology and interpreting the variety of terminology taken by various persons and groups in the course of history in the light of our agreed statement on Christology. (c) We need a book which gives some brief account, both historical and descriptive, of all the Churches of our two families. This should also be produced in the various languages of our peoples, with pictures and photographs as much as possible. (d) We need to promote brief books of Church History by specialist authors giving a more positive understanding of the divergencies of the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries. 6. Churches of both families should agree that they will not re-baptize members of each other, for recognition of the baptism of the Churches of our two families, if they have not already done so. 29
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