International Catholic-Orthodox dialogue resumes in Crete (Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity)

Following a two-year hiatus because of Covid, the Coordinating Committee of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church held a five-day meeting in Crete.

The Committee is co-chaired by Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, and Archbishop Job of Telmessos, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

The Committee approved a revised draft of a new document, “Primacy and Synodality in the Second Millennium and Today.” The dialogue’s previous document, devoted to synodality and primacy in the first millennium, was published in 2016.