Report on the Pre-Conciliar Council in Chambesy
Monday, March 14, 2011
The Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Commission, which is working to prepare for the planned Great and Holy Synod, and which is made up of representatives of fourteen autocephalous Orthodox churches, met from 21-26 February in Chambesy, Switzerland. It was this Commission that, in 2009, chartered the Assembly of Bishops of North and Central America. At this latest meeting, they were scheduled to address the issues of the order of Diptychs and the procedures for granting autocephaly to dependent churches.
For a report on this meeting, please see the article from the Patriarchate of Moscow''s Department for External Church Relations.
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