Being Recieved into Orthodoxy

[Daniel]

Here's a link to a list of Member Churches of the World Council of Churches, the copyright date is from 2001 so it may not be completely accurate.

Here is the list for the National Council of Churches

[PFC Nektarios]

Thats why I want to be recieved into the ROCOR or the Jerusalem Patriarchate.

In Christ
OrthodoxLearner

[Joe Zollars]

the JP was in the WCC last time I checked.

Nicholas Zollars

[Seraphim Reeves]

Nik,

Christmas Epistle 1968 — Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras states that the “Peoples of Christ”—Roman Catholics and Orthodox are due to reach unity without the hierarchs and theologians. He also states that he has inserted the name of Pope Paul VI in the diptychs of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

While this statement (in so far as it is accurately conveyed) by the EP is troubling and terribly irresponsible, I'd be curious about seeing hard evidence of Pope Paul VI's name being placed in the Diptychs of the EP; additionally, evidence as to whether or not this practice continues (ex. is John Paul II's name similarly commemorated?)

Seraphim

[尼古拉前执事]

Patriarch Athenagoras, addressing himself to Pope Paul VI in his letter for the Feast of the Nativity, in 1968, said: "In this communion (of the love of Christ), celebrating with the company of the most holy and most honorable Metropolitans around me, we will commemorate your precious name in the Diptychs of our heart, O most holy brother Bishop of the Elder Rome, before the holy offering of this precious Body and this precious Blood of the Savior in the Divine Liturgy of our most holy predecessor, the common Father of us all, John Chrysostomos. And we will say on this holy day of the Nativity before the holy Altar, and we say to you: May the Lord God remember thine Episcopacy, always, now and ever, and unto the ages of ages." (P. Gregoriou, Journey to Unity, Vol. II, (Athens: 1978), p. 293; Tomos Agapes, Vatican–Phanar (1958–1970) [in Greek] (Rome and Istanbul: 1971), pp. 528-530, §242.)

Since the "Lifting of the Anathemas", the Pope of Rome has been included among those commemorated by the Patriarch of Constantinople in the Divine Liturgy (in the Diptychs and in the Anaphora [see "Orthodoxos Enemerosis," Vol. XV-XVI. January-June 1995, pp. 42-43, esp. n. 17, p. 43]), a practice which was first made public to the world in Athenagoras' press statements and encyclicals of 1967-1968, and this practice continues at every Liturgy to this day ("Phone Orthodoxon," Vol. VI, No. 2 [1995], p. 18).

[PFC Nektarios]

The JP is not in the WCC as far as I know, I checked but they werent listed.

[尼古拉前执事]

Recently this came up on the Indiana list where the WCC confirmed that yes, indeed, the JP is an active member in the WCC. It has long been said by many in the JP that they were not. Quite unfortunate.