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A century after the modern ecumenical movement began, recent events within the Anglican Communion in the Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Churches have halted plausible progress.
The modern ecumenical movement began in 1925. In 2025, while the prayers for Christian unity continue, there is more pretending now than actual progress.
Year-end reviews for 2025 will include heartening photographs of Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III, supreme moderator of the Church of England, praying together in the Sistine Chapel. There will also be images of the Holy Father with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople at Nicaea. Yet the images betray the reality — the worldwide Anglican Communion effectively ceased to exist in 2025, and Leo’s visit to Turkey only highlighted the fragile state of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, titular head of Orthodoxy.
In 1925 in Stockholm, Sweden, a conference convened by Lutheran Archbishop Nathan Söderblom of Uppsala brought together some 600 Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant leaders. In his message for the centennial of that meeting this summer, Pope Leo XIV called Söderblom “the pioneer of the early ecumenical movement.”
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The modern ecumenical movement began in 1925. In 2025, while the prayers for Christian unity continue, there is more pretending now than actual progress.
Year-end reviews for 2025 will include heartening photographs of Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III, supreme moderator of the Church of England, praying together in the Sistine Chapel. There will also be images of the Holy Father with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople at Nicaea. Yet the images betray the reality — the worldwide Anglican Communion effectively ceased to exist in 2025, and Leo’s visit to Turkey only highlighted the fragile state of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, titular head of Orthodoxy.
In 1925 in Stockholm, Sweden, a conference convened by Lutheran Archbishop Nathan Söderblom of Uppsala brought together some 600 Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant leaders. In his message for the centennial of that meeting this summer, Pope Leo XIV called Söderblom “the pioneer of the early ecumenical movement.”
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As 2025 Comes to a Close, Is Christian Unity Stalled?
COMMENTARY: A century after the modern ecumenical movement began, recent events within the Anglican Communion in the Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Churches have halted plausible progress.
