Ecumenical Patriarch Reaffirms Committment to Ecumenism
July 13, 2012
Catholic World News reports that:
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I has reaffirmed the See of Constantinople’s commitment to work for Christian unity.
Patriarch Bartholomew, who has held office since 1991, said that his predecessor Patriarch Athenagoras
was criticized at the time for the openness he had demonstrated. Our Ecumenical Patriarchate, then as now, is continuously criticized for the ecumenical dialogue it pursues, as if it were our wish to sell Orthodoxy. Nothing is more unfounded. And yet today is no longer the epoch of egoistic withdrawal into self, autarchy and self-sufficiency.
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