Bible Study
  • Bible Study
  • End Times Headlines
  • Latest News
  • Days of Lot
Friday, April 23, 2021
No Result
View All Result
  • Login
Bible Study
No Result
View All Result
Home End times headlines

Soon Orthodox Churches Will Recognize The Pope As The Head Of The Church

Reading Time: 2 mins read
Share on Twitter

Is the thousand-year-old breach between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches a little closer to being mended?

Given the history of suspicion, hostility, political game-playing and theological intransigence that has marked the process so far, it seems unlikely. But after a significant meeting between theologians from the two sides, there are signs that change is in the wind.

The 14th Plenary Session of the Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church met in Chieti, Italy, and has just completed its work.

What’s significant is that it has approved a common document on a key cause of the division between the Churches. Its title is unpromising – Synodality and Primacy during the First Millennium: Towards a Common Understanding in Service to the Unity of the Church – but it deals with an issue of supreme importance: who’s in charge? According to Roman Catholics, it’s the pope; according to the Orthodox, he may be first among equals but he has no authority over patriarchs of the other Churches. So the question of how the pope’s office was seen in the formative years of the Christian Church, before the Great Schism that divided East and West in 1054, is absolutely crucial.

The Chieta document is a working paper that will go back to the Churches for discussion and – possibly, in time – approval. It follows a previous version approved at a meeting in Ravenna in 2007, which established that – with different nuances between Eastern and Western understandings of the word – the primacy of the Bishop of Rome was accepted by all Christians. But on that occasion the representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church walked out before discussions had even begun and were not party to the final agreement. Now, however, they are. Read More

READ ALSO

In times like these, we need a savior

Ellen White: The Final Movements WILL Be Rapid Ones

No One Can Enter The Kingdom Of Heaven Except Through The Catholic Church — Says Vatican

Chinese House Church Members Arrested for Listening to Foreign Pastor’s Audio Sermons

This is only the beginning of the next stage of the journey, and faithful Bible readers should look at this as signs of the impending doom and even darker days.

A lot is happening and it is happening too fast for us to take time to adjust.

Tags: Catholic Church

Related Posts

End times headlines

In times like these, we need a savior

In times like these, we need a savior. We live in a world where speaking the truth will put you...

Read more

Ellen White: The Final Movements WILL Be Rapid Ones

No One Can Enter The Kingdom Of Heaven Except Through The Catholic Church — Says Vatican

Chinese House Church Members Arrested for Listening to Foreign Pastor’s Audio Sermons

Please login to join discussion
  • The black pope is the most powerful man in the world

    685 shares
    Share 275 Tweet 171
  • Pope Francis ADMITS He Is The ANTICHRIST At The United Nations. MUST READ

    607 shares
    Share 243 Tweet 152
  • 10 Torture devices used by the Catholic Church in the Inquisition

    507 shares
    Share 221 Tweet 119
  • The Truth about the Pope’s Hat: fish god(Dagon)

    1078 shares
    Share 870 Tweet 87
  • Vatican admits the change of Sabbath was their act not the Bible

    432 shares
    Share 193 Tweet 100
  • Ellen White: The Final Movements WILL Be Rapid Ones

    425 shares
    Share 177 Tweet 103
  • Catholic Church Admits and Agrees with the Bible that Sunday is the Mark of the Beast

    4207 shares
    Share 4011 Tweet 82
  • Vatican Declares: The Catholic Church Is Above The Bible

    612 shares
    Share 257 Tweet 148
  • Who Is Baphomet? Truth You Must Know!

    671 shares
    Share 520 Tweet 63
  • Bill Gates’ Former Doctor Says Billionaire ‘Refused To Vaccinate His Children’

    199 shares
    Share 80 Tweet 50
Bible Study

© 2020 amredeemed - End times headlines | Coming of Jesus

Navigate Site

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • Bible Study
  • End Times Headlines
  • Latest News
  • Days of Lot

© 2020 amredeemed - End times headlines | Coming of Jesus

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this website you are giving consent to cookies being used. Visit our Privacy and Cookie Policy.