Orthodox-Lutheran commemoration of Reformation planned for 2017
May 21, 2015
At a recent meeting in Greece, the official ecumenical dialogue between the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the Eastern Orthodox churches announced that a joint commemoration of the Protestant Reformation’s 500th anniversary will be held in 2017.
A joint statement on ordained ministry is also scheduled to be released that year, though the LWF’s assistant general secretary acknowledged that “the topic of ordained ministry, or priesthood as the Orthodox frame it, is a challenging one.”
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