Participants in this
week's meeting of the Joint International Commission for
Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the
Orthodox Church should focus on the way the churches offered
communion in the first centuries, and sacraments such as
baptism, Pope Francis said on Friday in an audience with members
of the commission.
The five-day meeting between members of the Oriental
Orthodox churches and the Catholic church began on Monday, with
the aim of producing a joint document on "Communion and
Communication in the first five centuries of Christianity".
Oriental Orthodoxy, not to be confused with the Eastern
Orthodox Church, recognizes only the first three ecumenical
councils, and experienced a schism with the rest of Christendom
in the 5th century following the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD.
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