Église Orthodoxe Catholique de France

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The Orthodox Catholic Church in France (Église Orthodoxe Catholique de France) is an Orthodox church mainly in France that maintains the liturgy of the Roman rite . Since this church is not limited to France, it is also called the "Orthodox Church of the West". It is not currently in fellowship with any of the canonical Orthodox churches .

history

The church, founded in 1936, has its origins in the Orthodox Church of the West ( l'Eglise Orthodoxe Occidentale ), when a group around Louis-Charles Winnaert (1880–1937) sought communion with the Russian Orthodox Church . Winnaert's group also included a small convent of Benedictines in Bereuen d'Alleray in Paris . The result was an Orthodox Church that cultivated the Latin Mass with all its traditions. The first bishops were Irenaeus and John. From 1946, the masses were also celebrated in the Gallican rite .

The Orthodox Church in France also got caught up in tensions between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Church in Exile. With the death of the Bishop of Shanghai and San Francisco, Johannes , who promoted the so-called Western Mission, in 1966, the canonical jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church over the Orthodox Church in France also ended.

In 1972 the Orthodox Church in France recognized the jurisdiction of the Romanian Orthodox Church in order to be canonically recognized. Due to irregularities in church law, the Romanian Orthodox Church withdrew its jurisdiction from the Orthodox Church in France in 1993, so that it reverted to the status of a non-canonical church. However, the Romanian Church founded a deanery, the Église Orthodoxe Catholique de France , under the brother of the then Bishop Germain (civil: Gilles Bertrand-Hardy), Gregoire Bertrand, for those who wanted to remain under the jurisdiction of the Romanian Orthodox Church.

In 2001, after a scandal caused by revelations about the marriage of Bishop Germain, ten parishes left the Église Orthodoxe Catholique de France and founded the Union des Associations Cultuelles Orthodoxes de Rite Occidental   (UACORO). The Western Latin Rite Orthodox Church in France recognized communion with the Serbian Orthodox Church in 2004 . Since 2006, this has been formally under the jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Bishop for Western Europe.

The Église Orthodoxe Catholique de France is currently headed by Bishop Germain. It has parishes primarily in France, Switzerland, Argentina, the United States, and Spain.

Known members

  • Willi Massa (1931–2001), theologian, homileticist and meditation teacher

literature

  • Peter Huber: Beyond East and West - Orthodox Dimensions of the Christian Occident , in: St.-Andreas-Bote, special issue December 2006, pp. 43–50 (Chapter: The Gallican-Orthodox Renaissance ). PDF

Single receipts

  1. Manifesto for the Restoration of the Orthodox Church in Gaul . (As of May 14, 2016)

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