Is the Orthodox Diaspora a roblem that's too hard to solve?

Orthodox Council postpones a decision on overlapping jurisdictions abroad



24 June 2016 | by Tom Heneghan

This week’s Orthodox Holy and Great Council was supposed to solve the growing problem of the Church’s diaspora, the traditionally non-Orthodox parts of the world where immigration has brought with it overlapping jurisdictions and several bishops in one city can all claim the same title.

The problem has been the subject of lively debate at the Council in this western Crete town, but the deadline – which was set in 2009 after discussions going back at least to 1990 -- has come and gone with no solution in sight.

“Everyone in the Council desires a solution that is canonical. And everybody in the Council knows what it would take to achieve such a solution,” Bishop Gregorios of Mesaoria in Cyprus told journalists in between Council sessions.

“But we are frail human beings, so we need to ask for the grace of the Holy Spirit to guide us to achieving such a solution.”

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