Reunion with the East.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume XIII, Issue 5, 1 November 1922, Page 415

Reunion with the East.

Ail important step m the direction of reunion has been taken by the decision of the Holy Synod of Constantinople to recognise Anglican Orders as valid. The Patriarch addresses the Archbishop of Canterbury as "-Chief Hierareh" of the Anglican Communion announcing the decision. He says that the Holy Orthodox Church having examined the question ' ' from every point of view has concluded that, as before the Orthodox Church, the ordinations of the Anglican Episcopal Confession of Bishops, priests and deacons possess the same validity as these of the Roman, Old Catholic and Armenian churches possess, inasmuch as all essentials are found m them which are held indispensable for the Orthodox point of view for the recognition of the Charisma of the 'priesthood derived from Apostolic succession/ The decision does not bind the Patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem and Russia, nor the Churches of Cyprus, Jugo Slavia, Rumania and Czecho. Slovakia, but these churches, are almost certain to follow the example of the primatial See.