Saturday, November 19, 2011

Austrian cardinal's church transfer to Orthodox gains Vatican approval | Ekklesia

Austrian cardinal's church transfer to Orthodox gains Vatican approval | Ekklesia: "The head of Austria's Roman Catholic church has agreed to give one of his parish churches to Orthodox Christians, after an appeal against the decision by local Catholics was rejected by the Vatican on 11 November 2011 - writes Jonathan Luxmoore.

In October 2011, Cardinal Christoph Schonborn said he had decided to merge two neighboring parishes in Vienna so that the church of Our Lady of Sorrows could be taken over by the Serbian Orthodox church's diocese of Central Europe."

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