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CLOSING SPEECH PETER RAEDTS The topic of our meeting betrays a deeply Western concern; ques- tions about the ministry have always bothered the Latin half of the Church far more than our Greek brethren. In the churches that we now usually call Eastern or Orthodox, the structure of the Church in general and the place of its ministry in particular have never really been a matter of much discussion. At the local level there are the priests whose main task it is to celebrate the Divine Liturgy and to minister the Sacraments to the faithful, at the diocesan level we have the Metropolitan and his Council, and at the top is the Holy Synod, presided by the Patriarch, the Katholikos, the Great-arch- bishop, or whatever his name is. It is a relatively simple structure that all Eastern Churches, whether they arc Chaldean, Coptic, or Greek Orthodox, have always agreed upon from roughly the third century up till now. How different this relaxed attitude is from the constant discus- sions in the West. From the earliest times the shape of the Church and of Church government, and of the place of the ministry within it, have been the subject
Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis (in 2006 continued as Church History and Religious Culture) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2003
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