ORTHODOX CHURCH comments

http://orthodoxeurope.org/page/14/124.aspx#1

"We, the Orthodox, believe that, being not in communion with the Orthodox Churches, the Roman Catholic Church, likewise, ‘lacks something in its condition’. The restoration of communion with the Orthodox Church must be as important for the Catholic Church as the restoration of communion with the Church of Rome for the Orthodox Church...

The Orthodox Church does not recognize the Bishop of Rome as the ‘pontifex maximus’ of the Universal Church. In case of restoration of the Eucharistic communion, the Orthodox Church will recognize the Bishop of Rome as the first among equals (primus inter pares) in the family of primates of the Local Churches. The primacy of the Bishop of Rome is, for the Orthodox, that of honour, not of jurisdiction."

Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria: The Vatican Document Brings Nothing New

http://www.sthermanmpls.org/events.html

METROPOLITAN KIRILL OF SMOLENSK AND KALININGRAD The Orthodox Church is, according to Apostolic Succession, successor and heir to the old, undivided Church. Which is why everything contained in the Catholic document rightfully applies to the Orthodox Church," the Metropolitan added.

 Christian Unity As Viewed by the Orthodox Church Statement of the Representatives of the Orthodox Church at the North American Faith and Order Study Conference, Oberlin, Ohio, September 3-10, 1957



  All Christians should seek Unity. On the other hand, we feel that the Unity we seek is for us a given Unity which has never been lost, and, as a Divine gift and an essential mark of Christian existence, could not have been lost. This unity in the Church of Christ is for us a Unity in the Historical Church, in the fullness of faith, in the fullness of continuous sacramental life. For us, this Unity is embodied in the Orthodox Church, which kept both the integrity of the Apostolic Faith and the integrity of the Apostolic Order.