Oriental Orthodox

Link to our dialogue partner: The Standing Conference of Oriental Orthodox Churches

The Oriental Orthodox-Roman Catholic Consultation first began to take shape in 1978 following calls by Pope Paul VI, Catholicos Vasken I, Supreme Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church, and Pope Shenouda III, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, for scholars to "open up new avenues which will overcome the differences that still exist and bring their Churches to a more perfect unity in the profession of their faith". The Consultation meets once each year.  The Catholic Co-Chairman is Bishop Howard Hubbard of Albany.  The Standing Conference of Oriental Orthodox Churches (composed of the Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Syrian and Malankara Syrian Orthodox Churches)  is to name a new Oriental Orthodox Co-Chairman soon, to take the place of Rev. Chor-Episcopos John Meno, who recently retired.  Fr. Ronald Roberson, CSP, currently staffs this dialogue for the Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs Office.

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