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NCWC News Release: Orthodox and Catholic Bishops to Meet (1965)

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  • 2013
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  • English

NCWC News Release: Orthodox and Catholic Bishops to Meet, September 5, 1965

The Ecumenical Commission of the Standing Conference of Orthodox Bishops of the Americas and the Roman Catholic Bishops' Commission for Ecumenical Affairs will meet in a day of exploratory discussions on September 9 in Worcester, Mass. This will be the first such meeting between the two bodies on a national level in this country. There are some five million members of the world-wide Orthodox Church in North America.

The Roman Catholic Commission has held similar discussions with Lutherans, Episcopalians and the United Presbyterians in the U.S.A., and the Orthodox Com­mission is engaged in a continuing theological dialogue with the Episcopalians.

Heading the Orthodox Commission at this meeting will be its chairman, Archbishop Iakovos of New York, chairman of the Standing Conference of Orthodox Bishops. The Roman Catholic Commission for Ecumenical Affairs is headed by Lawrence Cardinal Shehan of Baltimore, who, with members of the Commission, designated Bishop Bernard Flanagan of the Diocese of Worcester, Mass., as head of the subcommission for relations with the Orthodox.

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