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Bless me a sinner, Reader Sergius!
You are right about context.
However, the EP DID say it accepted the validity of the Mystery of Holy Orders among the Anglicans as it did among the Armenians, in or out of Communion with the Church.
Also, the statement implies the EP would not call into question Anglican orders upon reunion and would not "reconsecrate" or "reordain" (right?).
That MUST means that it regarded the Anglicans as a true Church, just as it does the RC's and Armenians.
But again this is just the view of the EP and some others who, voluntarily, agreed with it.
Therefore, this view cannot be considered general for world Orthodoxy.
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Alex,
Yet another:
CYPRUS, 1923
The Archbishop of Cyprus wrote to the Patriarch of Constantinople in the name of his Synod on March 20, 1923, as follows:
To His All-Holiness the Oecumenical Patriarch Mgr. Meletios we send brotherly greeting in Christ.
Your Holiness �
Responding readily to the suggestion made in your reverend Holiness� letter of August 8, 1922, that the autocephalous Church of Cyprus under our presidency should give its opinion as to the validity of Anglican Orders we have placed the matter before the Holy Synod in formal session.
After full consideration thereof it has reached the following conclusion:
It being understood that the Apostolic Succession in the Anglican Church by the Sacrament of Order was not broken at the Consecration of the first Archbishop of this Church, Matthew Parker, and the visible signs being present in Orders among the Anglicans by which the grace of the Holy Spirit is supplied, which enables the ordinand for the functions of his particular order, there is no obstacle to the recognition by the Orthodox Church of the validity of Anglican Ordinations in the same way that the validity of the ordinations of the Roman, Old Catholic, and Armenian Church are recognized by her. Since clerics coming from these Churches into the bosom of the Orthodox Church are received without reordination we express our judgment that this should also hold in the case of Anglicans � excluding intercommunio (sacramental union), by which one might receive the sacraments indiscriminately at the hands of an Anglican, even one holding the Orthodox dogma, until the dogmatic unity of the two Churches, Orthodox and Anglican, is attained.
Submitting this opinion of our Church to Your All-Holiness, we remain,
Affectionately, the least of your brethren in Christ,
Cyril of Cyprus
Archbishopric of Cyprus.
March 7/20, 1923
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The Church of Greece and the Church of Constantinople currently "re-ordain" Anglican priests who convert to Orthodoxy.
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Originally posted by Kurt:
3. That the orthodox theologians who have scientifically examined the question have almost unanimously come to the same conclusions and have declared themselves as accepting the validity of Anglican Orders. Kurt, I am confused,  , by the statement above. Maybe you could define it a bit for me, what does "almost unanimously" mean? David [ 02-11-2002: Message edited by: DavidB ]
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