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Thanks Alice.


That's how I understand what Alice related from her mother. I can't really comment further b/c this is the first time I have heard that explanation.

If I recall, I think I remember Metropolitan Kallistos attributing the Orthodox Church's overtures towards the Church of England to ignorance. They seemed not to realize that the Anglo-Catholics they were speaking with did not represent most of Anglicanism. Of course, my memory could be completely failing me here.

I think that there was a time in the early twentith century after Leo Xiii's condmnation of Anglican Orders, when Anglo-Catholics looked finally East, in the hope of recognition from an Eastern Patriarch. The Anglican & Eastern Churches Association was formed and the Fellowship of SS Alban and Sergius. There were lots of visits and very good relations between Anglo-Catholics and eastern orthodox, but I think that it all petered out in the Swinging Sixties, South Bank theology and finally Women Priests. The Anglo-Irish & Anglo-Catholic writer Shane Leslie went to Russia and met Tolstoy and hoped he would receive Communion is Russia.It is described fictionally in his books The Anglo-Catholic and The Cantab.