The ORTHODOX Signers of the
BALAMAND Statement



The Russian 3-Bar CrossEcumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
His Eminence Archbishop + STYLIANOS of Australia
Orthodox Co-President of the Joint International Commission

Patriarchate of Alexandria
His Eminence Metropolitan + DIONYSIOS of Nubia
Professor Constantine Patelos

Patriarchate of Antioch
His Eminence Metropolitan + GEORGE of Byblos and Botrys
Father Archimandrite Youhanna (Yazigi)

Church of Russia
Father Hegumen Nestor (Žil’ajev)

Church of Romania
His Eminence Metropolitan + ANTONIE of Transylvania
Father Archpriest Dumitru Radu

Church of Cyprus
His Eminence Metropolitan + CHRYSANTHOS of Morphou
Professor Macarius Papachristophorou

Church of Poland
Father Hieromonk Barsanuphius (Doroszkiewicz)

Church of Albania
Professor Theodoros Papapavli

Church of Finland
His Grace Bishop + AMBROSIUS of Joensocu

Executive Secretary
His Eminence Metropolitan + SPYRIDON of Italy
Sometime Archbishop of America, Greek Orthodox Church (Ecumenical Patriarchate)

[The Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Churches of Georgia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Czechoslovakia were not represented.]

The statement was signed at Balamand, an Orthodox monastery and seminary in Lebanon, in 1993.

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