I love the Coptic (and other Oriental Orthdodox) liturgies. I worshipped at a Coptic Church this year for Christmas. It was a wonderful experience. I grew up in the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese (part of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch), and am baptized and chrismated. Could someone in my situation receive Communion in the Oriental Orthodox churches?
After seeing a post from someone else, I wondered if anyone else has seen the disturbing public teachings from the pastor at Generation Church in Mesa. In January of 2025, the pastor publicly posted that he wants to ban Jewish people from praying at public events. If you look at his church social media profiles where he delivers his teachings, there are many such posts about pretty much any group you can think of. Anyone else see this?
In the 19th century, the Roman Catholic Pope issued a document called an "apostolic curae" declaring Anglican Holy Orders to be invalid, "null and void." This prompted a decades-long dialogue between the Church of England (Anglican Communion) and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, as many Anglicans turned to Constantinople for support to counterbalance the pope's declaration. In 1922, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (both the Patriarch and Synod) officially declared that they determined that Anglican Holy Orders possess "the same validity" of apostolic succession as Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, and Armenian Apostolic (Oriental Orthodox) orders. They were eventually joined by the Eastern Orthodox Churches of Alexandria, Jerusalem, Romania, Cyprus, and Sinai who affirmed the same. The Church of Greece's synod partially agreed, declaring that they could receive Anglican Holy Orders "by economia" on a case by case basis but did not go so far as to say they possessed the same validity as Roman Catholics etc. These declarations have never been officially rescinded, although, obviously in practice the differences between the Anglican Communion and Eastern Orthodox Church today mean that these prior statements are not practiced (i.e. Anglican clergy are re-ordained by Eastern Orthodox bishops today). What are thoughts about this and the future of Anglican-Orthodox dialogue and ecumenism?
