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Anglican-Oriental Orthodox International Commission
Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenia, November 5-10, 2002

Agreed Statement Revised Cairo, Egypt, October 13-17, 2014

Christology

Introduction

In 1990, the second Forum of representatives of the Oriental Orthodox
Churches and the Churches of Anglican Communion, meeting at the Monas-
tery of St Bishoy in Wadi el Natroun, Egypt, was able to produce the following
statement: God, as revealed in the life, teaching, passion, death, resurrection and ascen-
sion of Jesus Christ calls His people into union with Himself. Living by the Holy Spirit,
His own people have been given authority to proclaim this Good News to all creation.

The Forum was also able to suggest that an agreement on Christology
between the Oriental Orthodox and the Anglican Communion was now possi-
ble, taking note of the detailed theological work done by representatives of the
two families of Orthodoxy between 1964 and 1971 resulting in the Agreed
Statements of 1989 and 1990, the work done in the uno?cial Pro Oriente con-
versations, and of the history of convergence in Christology between the
Churches of the Anglican Communion and the Oriental Orthodox Churches.
To this must now be added the Agreed Statement on Christology of the
Reformed-Oriental Orthodox Dialogue (Driebergen, Netherlands, September
13, 1994).

Our ?rst meeting as the Anglican-Oriental Orthodox International
Commission was held in Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenia, November 5-10, 2002,
following the meeting of the Preparatory Committee in Midhurst, England,
July 27-30, 2001. It produced an Agreed Statement on Christology. This text
was sent to the participating Churches following this meeting and again follow-
ing the second meeting of the Commission held in Woking, England, October
3-7, 2013. The third meeting of the Commission, held in Cairo, Egypt, October
13-17, 2014, reviewed these responses and made slight revisions to the text. All
this work has been done in a spirit of service of the Risen Christ and of the
human race whom He came to save. Our work recognizes the presence of
Christ with those who su?er in the tragic history of humanity. It expresses
both the hope of a new humanity and the hope of glory wherein we will par-
take in Christ’s holiness. With the will for unity-in-Christ within us it has been

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