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Anglican Orders and Orthodox Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2006

BRYN GEFFERT
BRYN GEFFERT
Affiliation:
St Olaf College Libraries St Olaf College, 1510 St Olaf Avenue, North.eld, Minn. 55057, USA; e-mail: ge.ert@stolaf.edu
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Abstract

This essay examines the political and religious impetus behind Patriarch Meletios Metaxakis's recognition of Anglican orders in 1922. The furore surrounding recognition, the events that led up to it and the fall-out that followed shed light on the many difficulties faced by religious leaders in the post-war Orthodox world, difficulties that led to fierce jockeying among Orthodox clerics as they tried to establish themselves in relation to their coreligionists and to the larger Christian world. The controversy also offers insight into the problems inherent when a ‘comprehensive’ Church such as the Church of England enters into discussions with a more uniformly dogmatic confession such as Orthodoxy.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , April 2006 , pp. 270 - 300
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

CE=The Christian East; CQR=Church Quarterly Review; ECU=English Church Union; JFSASS=Journal of the Fellowship of St Alban & St Sergius; TV=Tserkovnyia viedomosti