Senior representatives of Catholic and Orthodox churches met in Budapest on Thursday and Friday to discuss preparations for a European Catholic-Orthodox Forum, the Secretariat of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops' Conference (MKPK) told MTI. The consultation was chaired by Hungarian Cardinal Peter Erdo, president of the Council of the European Bishops' Conferences (CCEE), and attended by delegates from the Catholic Church as well as the Russian, Constantinopolitan, Serbian and Romanian Orthodox churches.
Although the date and venue of the forum are yet to be fixed, both the Holy See and the CSCE qualified the meeting as successful.
Erdo and Metropolitan Kirill, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department of external church relations, met in Moscow in mid-June. On that occasion, Erdo advised the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox churches to create a forum for discussing a broad range of issues, including human rights, human dignity, social justice and the teachings of churches in Europe.
In another development, earlier this week MPKP announced that Budapest would host a Christian-Jewish world meeting next November.
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