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Ecclesiastical Regionalism: Structures of Communion or Cover for Separatism?\nRev. John Meyendorff\nIssues of dialogue with Roman Catholicism. In discussing issues of ecclesiology, the temptation is always great to manipulate concepts and doctrinal definitions, while avoiding a critical approach to their application in practice. It is easy, for example, for an Orthodox theologian to describe the ecclesiology of St. Ignatius of Antioch and to construct an apologetic argument in favor of the contemporary Orthodox position concerning Roman Primacy. But it is more difficult to analyze ecclesiastical institutions - as they developed in East and West - in their existential role of maintaining the faith, shepherding the faithful, and accomplishing the Church's mission in the world.

A Good Article to Review: especially with the political power plays of Metropolitan PHILLIP/ ANTIOCH, REDUCING ALL American Antiochian Bishops to auxiliary bishops... AND the war of words/ "PAPAL OVERTURES" OF THE EP, with claims of authority over all "diaspora" churches, included all those in America; AND Metropolitan JONAH defending the years of work by Orthodox here in America to solve the multiple jurisdictional problems and strive for unity and a canonical American Autocephalous Church

Fr. Michael Pleckon\nMichael Plekon is a priest of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), is the associate priest at St. Gregory the Theologian Church, Wappingers Falls NY and is professor in the department of Sociology/Anthropology and the Program in Religion and Culture at Baruch College of the City University of New York, where he has taught since 1977.