The Ochlophobist references the translation of an article by
Metropolitan Georges Khodr of Mount Lebanon from a recent issue of the Lebanese newspaper
an-Nahar. The translation is from the very erudite and informative blog
Notes on Arab Orthodoxy and entitled
Antiochian Ecclesiology. It's worth reading as the basic concepts apply to all Byzantine Christians, Orthodox or Catholic. This become very apparent in the differences in the way laity and priests interact with their bishops in an Eastern Church versus a Western Church.
A snippet to whet your whistle:
... the bishop is not only connected to the whole of the flock with which he is entrusted. He his connected as a member to the other metropolitans who govern the church that we call ‘local’ or ‘regional’ just as he is united to the right-believing bishops of all the world. However, current, day-to-day events determine the actions of the local church...
Insightful and worthy of your consideration, read it
here.
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