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Catholic Church on conditions of parity.” (JMP No.11, 1963)

Three meetings of Orthodox technical theological commission for the preparation of

the dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church preceded the work of the Joint

International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic and

Orthodox Churches.

The list of topics for the primary stage of the dialogue was worked out by the Third

conference of the Commission which took place at the Orthodox Center of the

Ecumenical Patriarchate in Chambesy, Switzerland, on June 25-27, 1978.

Representatives of ten Local Orthodox Churches – with the exception of the Serbian,

Polish, Czechoslovak and Finnish Churches – took part in the meeting. The

conference described the aim of the dialogue thus :

“The objective of the dialogue between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox

Churches is to establish full communion. Such communion is to be based on the

unity in the faith, on a commonly shared life and Tradition of the early Church and

is to be realized through the celebration of one Eucharist.”

On the method of the dialogue, the conference said that it “should proceed from

the elements which unite the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches. By no means

does it imply that it is desirable or even possible to avoid problems still dividing

the two Churches. This only means that the dialogue should be built up in a positive

spirit, prevailing over the interpretation of the problems accumulated during

several centuries of division . (…)

In this light, the points of division between our Churches could be dealt with by

applying a new method. There is a hope that in this way it would be possible in a

consistent and successive manner to remove certain obstacles impeding the

return of our two Churches to a commonly shared life.”

Agreement to start a theological dialogue between the Orthodox and Roman

Catholic Churches was reached during the visit of Pope John Paul II to Phanar in

1979, following which Patriarch Demetrius I of Constantinople announced the

formation of a Joint International commission for Theological Dialogue between the