SEIA stands for the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Inter-religious Affairs of the American Conference of Catholic Bishops. The newsletter is put together monthly by Rev. Fr. Ronald Roberson, who is leading this secretariat. Fr. Roberson is the author of the first PhD ever on the theology of Fr. Dumitru Staniloae, the most important Romanian Orthodox theologian. During my doctoral studies I was in constant contact with Fr. Roberson.
Here is the latest newsletter, which I receive regularly from Fr. Roberson.
SEIA Newsletter – October 2014
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Here is, as an example, the first news item in this newsletter:
ON 3 OCTOBER 2014, THE SPECIAL INTER-ORTHODOX COMMISSION
FOR PREPARING THE PAN-ORTHODOX COUNCIL CONCLUDED ITS SESSION.
THE COMMISSION CHAIRED BY METROPOLITAN JOHN OF PERGAMON (Patriarchate of Constantinople) was working in Chambesy, Switzerland, from September, 30. With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, a delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church took part in the meeting.
The Commission reviewed draft documents of the Pan-Orthodox Council on inter-Christian relations, adopted at the 3rd Pan-Orthodox Preconciliar Consultation in 1986. The participants in the meeting took into account considerable changes that had taken place in a whole number of Protestant denominations in recent decades. At its subsequent meetings, the Commission will continue to edit and
amend draft documents of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church.
The Pan-Orthodox Preconciliar Consultation, due to be convened next year in compliance with the decision of the Meeting of Primates of the Orthodox Local Churches which was held in March 2014, will consider the results of the Commission’s work. – Press Release, Moscow Patriarchate, Oct. 4
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