The Orthodox Churches and the WCC: To Stay or to Leave?
August 23
Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, now patriarch, at the Seventh Assembly of the WCC in Canberra, Australia in 1991. Since than joint prayers like the one in the photo have been prohibited by the Russian Orthodox Church
The World Council of Churches was founded on this day in 1948
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