| 8 September 2010 |
| Orthodox Metropolitan pledges collaboration with other churches |
HONG KONG (APEN) -- The new Orthodox Metropolitan
of Hong Kong and South East Asia pledged that his church would continue to work with the Catholic and Protestant churches.
|
At his enthronement service here on 1 March, Forty-year-old Metropolitan Nektarios Tsilis told the representatives of the churches that they had honoured the Orthodox Church with their presence at the service.
“We will continue to work together to fulfil God’s Work,
he said.
Hong Kong’s Catholic Cardinal Joseph
Zen, Anglican Primate Paul Kwong, Lutheran Bishop
Nicholas Tai, Methodist President Rev Dr Lo Lung Kwong
and a number of church leaders attended the service.
Metropolitan Athenagoras, Archbishop of Mexico and
Central America, represented Ecumenical Patriarch
Bartholomew I – spiritual leader of the world wide
Orthodox, to celebrate the service.
The new Metropolitan said during the service that “the
mission of the Church does not lie simply in the
improvement of the world and of each individual human
being. It is also its mission to bear witness to the
martyrdom of Christ and to complete His mission.”
Referring to the Asian ministry, he said that the
presence of the Orthodox Church in the countries of
the Far East had “its goal to reach out to all the
people, and together, to follow in the footsteps of
Christ, and to find salvation.”
The service was held at a Catholic chapel to accommodate
more participants.
The pastoral area of the young Metropolitan
includes India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore,
Mainland China and Taiwan.
|
|
