On Friday 22nd July 2016, representatives of the Irish Council of Churches (ICC) and the Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference were delighted to welcome His Eminence Metropolitan Silouan of the Archdiocese of the British Isles and Wales of the Antiochian Orthodox Church, on the occasion of his first pastoral visit to the Antiochian Orthodox community in Belfast.
The tide of Christian ecumenism has ebbed and flowed over the past century; but whether it was at its height or apparently beyond the horizon, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity has acted as a practical local reminder that although His Church is fractured, Christ remains undivided and at one with the Father and with all his children.
The Bishop of Connor, the Rt Revd Alan Abernethy, will attend the 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Busan, Republic of Korea, from 29 October to 8 November 2013.