Why Ecclesial Structures at the Regional Level Matter: Communion as Mutual Inclusion

In the one communion of all local churches, regional structures of authority are essential if the church is to live out its mission in each sociopolitical context. The article explores how structures of regional and universal authority interact in Catholic and Orthodox contexts, looking at the minis...

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Main Author: Cohen, Will T. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 2014
In: Theological studies
Year: 2014, Volume: 75, Issue: 2, Pages: 308-330
Further subjects:B Primacy
B Communion
B Catholic–Orthodox relations
B Ecclesiology
B ecclesial authority
B Local Church
B mutual inclusion
B episcopal assembly
B church unity
B Orthodoxy
B regional church
B Oscar Romero
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Summary:In the one communion of all local churches, regional structures of authority are essential if the church is to live out its mission in each sociopolitical context. The article explores how structures of regional and universal authority interact in Catholic and Orthodox contexts, looking at the ministry of unity exercised in the late 1970s by Archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador and at Orthodoxy’s ongoing efforts to bring multiple ethnic jurisdictions into administrative unity in North America.
ISSN:2169-1304
Contains:Enthalten in: Theological studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0040563914529899