27.01.2004
LWF General Secretary to Meet with Ecumenical Patriarch
Progress of Lutheran-Orthodox Dialogue among Issues to be AddressedISTANBUL, Turkey/GENEVA, 27 January 2004 (LWI) - The progress of the international Lutheran-Orthodox dialogue and its new focus on the significance of the Word and Sacraments (Mysteria) as well as recent ecumenical developments are among issues that Lutheran World Federation (LWF) General Secretary, Rev. Dr Ishmael Noko, will address during his visit to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, January 27 to 28.
"Our dialogue has already made clear that we are united by much in the way of a common faith," Noko said in anticipation of the meeting with His All Holiness, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I.
The LWF general secretary is accompanied by the co-president of the Lutheran-Orthodox Joint Commission, Archbishop Dr Georg Kretschmar (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia and Other States), and the director of the LWF Office for Communication Services, Ms Karin Achtelstetter.
The program also includes conversations with the members of the Synodical Committee for Inter-Christian Relations of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople: H.E. Metropolitan Prof. Dr Athanasios of Heliopolis and Theira (president), H.E. Metropolitan Dr Meliton of Philadelphia, H.E. Metropolitan Dr Chrysostomos of Myra, H.E. Metropolitan Prof. Dr Gennadios of Sassima, Prof. Dr Basil Stavridis, and the Very Rev. Deacon Maximos (secretary). (214 words)
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