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How can you say that? How on Earth is healing a schism sad? St. Clement said schism is worse than heresy. Here are the facts about the OO: They are not monophysites; their Christology is exactly that of St. Cyril. They are not universalists, Origenists or semi-Nestorians, so in that sense...

I don't quite follow...are you saying Patriarch Ignatius IV is not part of the Church?

Not "supposedly." Antioch agreed with the Syriac Orthodox Church, and the view of HB Ignatius IV and HH Ignatius Zakka Iwas, Memory Eternal, is clear: the two Parriarchates are both one church. Also, if there can be 9 councils, or even 10, why not 3? Here is the official agreement between...

And there have been cases of Ethiopian monks baptizing Eastern Orthodox. That doesn't make it canonical. The canons say Nestorians and Monophysites are to be received by confession. Of course the Oriental Orthodox aren't Monophysites, so in the church of Antioch they are not received at all...

or maybe St. Paisios misinterpreted it. maybe God was trying to tell him that the Assyrians and the Oriental Orthodox are Christologically Orthodox and a part of the Church

Where? I've never heard of it. in the Antiochian Orthodox Church and in the Greek Orthodox church of Alexandria they aren't received at all.

By this logic, we should reject the existence of atoms because St. Basil in his weitings described the idea as nonsense; he believed in the five elements! Saints are not infallible; they make mistakes. Only Tradition as a whole is infallible, and there is a difference between this Tradition...

Copts cannot be received by Baptism, and neither can Nestorians, as it is a violation of the ancient canons. They can only be received by confession. See the Pedalion of St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain. In principle, the Syriac and Antiochian Orthodox churches agreed to not convert members...

It was very, very complicated.

Actually we do know he was Nestorian, because he was appointed to his see, and travelled there, under the orders of the Nestorian Catholicos. And the Nestorians venerate him.

Btw. just a straw poll for those in favor or opposed to EO-OO recomciliation: Are you cradle Orthodox or convert? if you are a convert, how long have you been Orthodox? Which autocephalous Patriarchate presides over your church?

I provided the names of leading Orthodox Patriarchs who support reconciliation, and also the names of some of the leading opponents of reconciliation. If you're not comfortable naming His Eminence, that's fine, however, I have no idea which archbishop you are referring to or what jurisdiction...

Archbishop Michael of what jurisdiction?

St. Isaac the Syrian was a Nestorian monk, briefly a bishop, living in Iraq. He was also, like many members of the Nestorian church, a believer in apokatastasis. This is an established fact.

Which bishop? Because Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, Patriarch Theodoros II and Patriarch John X Yazigi say they are Orthodox. The only bishop I can think of off the top of my head who has really gone after the Oriental Orthodox in a polemical manner is Metropolitan Seraphim of Piraeus. But...

Did any professor at STS explicitly tell you that the Oriental Orthodox are hererics, non-Orthodox, monophysites, or hererodox? If so, who?

John Sandipoulous is not a serious scholar or Syriologist. Sebastian Brock is. if they are actually at STS teaching their students that Sebastian Brock is wrong, well, that's pretty shocking.

They say he has a human and divine will, and a human and divine energy. This is a logical extrapolation of the miaphysis Christology advocated by St. Cyril. None of them say he had a divine will or a divine energy only, which would ne monergism and monothelitism. Irrelevant, because they...

All manuscript evidence suggests otherwise. It also doesn't help that the Nestorians have always venerated him as a saint, and have published their own manuscript editions of his works. Sebastian Brock is a serious scholar, not a hack.

So are you saying the Patriarch of Antioch and the Pope of Alexandria, among others, are doing it "improperly"? The Antiochian Orthodox pray for the abducted Syriac Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo along with his Antiochian counterpart at every liturgy. I'm pretty sure there are canons against...