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COE: SESSION D*OUVERTURE DE LA COMMISSION SP�CIALE SUR LA PARTICIPATION ORTHODOXE


From "WCC Media Office (Sheila MESA)" <[email protected]>
Date 03 Dec 1999 04:59:39

Conseil oecum�nique des Eglises
Communiqu� de presse
Pour publication imm�diate
Le 3 d�cembre 1999

SESSION D*OUVERTURE DE LA COMMISSION SP�CIALE SUR LA PARTICIPATION ORTHODOXE AU COE

La Commission sp�ciale sur la participation orthodoxe au Conseil oecum�nique des Eglises (COE)  se r�unira du 6 au 8 d�cembre � Morges, sur les rives du Lac L�man. Au cours de cette premi�re session, la Commission traitera essentiellement de questions de planification et de proc�dure concernant le d�roulement de la discussion entre protestants et orthodoxes, lanc�e au d�part pour une p�riode de trois ans.

Les tensions entre orthodoxes et protestants sont apparues au grand jour en 1998, � la veille de la Huiti�me Assembl�e du COE, quand les Eglises orthodoxes de Bulgarie et de G�orgie se sont retir�es de cette organisation et que la famille orthodoxe, dans une d�claration faite en mai 1998 � Thessalonique, a exprim� son m�contentement devant la situation actuelle.

Dans cette d�claration, les Eglises orthodoxes mettaient l*accent sur leur longue tradition oecum�nique et leur solide engagement au sein du COE, mais elles d�ploraient le fait que les structures actuelles du Conseil oecum�nique rendent difficile une participation ad�quate des orthodoxes. La d�claration formulait �galement d*autres critiques, touchant notamment la stagnation " dans les discussions th�ologiques multilat�rales entre chr�tiens ", le langage liturgique utilis� au COE, ainsi que les questions de l*ordination de la femme et de l*orientation sexuelle.

En raison des diff�rends qui avaient  surgi, il avait �t� d�cid� en d�cembre 1998, � la Huiti�me Assembl�e de Harare, de cr�er une commission mixte compos�e d*orthodoxes et de protestants, afin d*examiner les critiques des orthodoxes et d*�laborer des solutions possibles.

Sur les 337 Eglises membres que compte actuellement le COE, 21 sont orthodoxes. Celles-ci repr�sentent num�riquement plus du tiers des chr�tiens appartenant aux Eglises membres du COE.  L'Eglise orthodoxe russe est la plus grande Eglise membre du COE.

Participants � la r�union de Morges (au 3 d�cembre 1999) :

Dr Anna Marie Aagaard, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark, Denmark

Very Rev. Nareg (Manoug) Alemezian, Armenian Apostolic Church (Cilicia), Lebanon

Hieromonk Dr Hilarion Alfeyev, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Federation

H.E. Metropolitan Ambrosios of Kalavryta, Church of Greece, Greece

Mr George Andriadze, Georgian Orthodox Church, Georgia

Mr Andrei Dan Apostu, Orthodox Church in Czech Lands and Slovakia, Czech Republic

H.E. Metropolitan Athanasios Papas, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Turkey (Substitute for: H.E. Metropolitan Ambrosius of Oulu)

Mr Ramez Attalah, Presbyterian Church, Egypt

H.E. Archbishop Aghan Baliozian, Armenian Apostolic Church (Etchmiadzin), Australia

H.E. Metroplitan Anba Bishoy of Damiette, Coptic Orthodox Church, Egypt

Bishop Gust�v B�lcskei, Reformed Church in Hungary, Hungary

Ms Manoushag Boyadjian, Armenian Apostolic Church (Cilicia), Lebanon

Mr John Briggs, Baptist Union of Great Britain, United Kingdom

H.E. Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Ephesus, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Greece

H.E. Metropolitan Chrysostomos Zafiris, Church of Greece, Greece (Substitute for H.E. Metropolitan Ambrosius of Kozani)

H.G. Bishop Chrystopher of Olomouc and Brno, Orthodox Church in Czech Lands and Slovakia, Czech Republic

Rev. Yadessa Daba, Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Ethiopia

Mr Jean Fischer, National Protestant Church of Geneva, Switzerland

Rev. Ying Gao, China Christian Council, China

Rev. Fr Dr K.M. George, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, India

Bishop Hans Gerny, Old Catholic Church of Switzerland, Switzerland

Ms Anne Glynn-Mackoul, Greek Orth. Patr. of Antioch and All the East, United States of America

Eden Grace, Society of Friends, United States of America

Rev. Wesley Granberg-Michaelson, Reformed Church in America, United States of America

H.E. Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim, Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, Syria

Fr Mikhael Gundyaev, Russian Orthodox Church, Switzerland

Mr Gabriel Habib, Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, United States of  America

Bishop Dr Thomas L. Hoyt Jr, Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, United States of America

Bishop Voitto Huotari, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, Finland

H.E. Archbishop Jeremiasz of Wroclaw, Polish Autocephalic Orthodox Church, Poland

Ms Jana Kalinov�, Czechoslovak Hussite Church, Czech Republic

H.G. Bishop Basil Karayiannis of Trimithus, Church of Cyprus, Cyprus

The Very Rev. Leonid Kishkovsky, Orthodox Church in America, United States of America

Bishop Dr Rolf Koppe, Evangelical Church of Germany, Germany

Dr John Lappas, Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania, Greece

Dr Janice Love, United Methodist Church, United States of America

Archbishop Makarios Tillyrides of Zimbabwe, Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria,  Zimbabwe

H.G. Abune  Mekarios, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Ethiopia

D. Dr Soritua Nababan, Huria Kristen Batak Protestan, Indonesia

H.G. Bishop Dr Nifon of Slobodzia & Calarasi, Romanian Orthodox Church, Romania

Dr Mercy A. Oduyoye, Methodist Church of Nigeria, Ghana

Archbishop Michael Peers, Anglican Church of Canada, Canada

H.E. Metropolitan John Pelushi, Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania, Albania

Rev. John Phiri, Reformed Church in Zambia, Zambia

Dr Agidew Redie, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Ethiopia

Fr Dr Ioan Sauca, Romanian Orthodox Church, Switzerland (Substitute for Rev. Prof. Dr Ioan Ica, Jr.)

Prof. Constantine Scouteris, Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa,  Greece

Archpriest David Sharashenidze, Georgian Orthodox Church, Georgia

Dr Mary Tanner, Church of England, United Kingdom

Bishop Dr Zacharias M. Theophilus, Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, United States of  America

Very Rev. Dr Georges Tsetsis, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Switzerland

Rev. Dr Eugene Turner, Presbyterian Church (USA), United States of America

Rev. Dr d'Arcy Wood, Uniting Church in Australia, Australia

Personnes excus�es/absentes :

Dr Agnes Abuom, Anglican Church of Kenya

Bishop Vinton R. Anderson, African Methodist Episcopal Church (USA)

H.E. Metropolitan Aristarchos of Constantine, Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem

Bulgarian Orthodox Church

H.E. Bishop Ignatije of Branicevo, Serbian Orthodox Church

H.E. Bishop Irenej of Backa, Serbian Orthodox Church

Bishop Dr Christoph Klein, Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Romania

Archbishop N.W.H. Ndungane, Church of the Province of Southern Africa

Rev. Ofelia Ortega, Presbyterian Reformed Church in Cuba

Bishop Federico J. Pagura, Evangelical Methodist Church of Argentina

Rev. Dr Jong-Wha Park, Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea

Dr George Sabra, Reformed Church/Lebanon

Bishop Munib Younan, Evangelical Lutheran Church/Jerusalem

Invit�s :

Mr Andrei Elisseev, Russian Orthodox Church

H.E. Metropolitan Gennadios Limouris of Sassima, Ecumenical Patriarchate of  Constantinople

Archimandrite Benedict Ioannou, Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople

Pour toute information compl�mentaire, s'adresser �:
Karin Achtelstetter, Responsable des relations avec les m�dias 
T�l.:  (+41 22) 791 61 53    Portable: (+41) 79 284 52 12

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Le Conseil oecum�nique des Eglises (COE) est une communaut� de 337 Eglises. Elles sont r�parties dans plus de 100 pays sur tous les continents et repr�sentent pratiquement toutes les traditions chr�tiennes. L'Eglise catholique romaine n'est pas membre mais elle collabore activement avec le COE. La plus haute instance dirigeante du COE est l'Assembl�e, qui se r�unit environ tous les 7 ans. Le COE a �t� form� officiellement en 1948 � Amsterdam, aux Pays-Bas. Le secr�taire g�n�ral Konrad Raiser, de l'Eglise �vang�lique d'Allemagne, est � la t�te du personnel de l'organisation.  

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