A Statement by the Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East

Balamand, February 22, 2020Following the generous invitation of His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem to His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch, to participate in a consultative meeting of Church leaders in Amman, Jordan, on the twenty-fifth of this month, the Antiochian Church declares that She will not participate in this meeting.The Church of Antioch acknowledges the concern of the Orthodox Churches’ Primates and their initiatives to what could