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 1   A    |          use of the phrase «sister Churches,» an expression which appears
 2   A    |            Church and the Orthodox Churches.  It is an expression that
 3   A    |        Church of Rome and Orthodox Churches. ~ ~Unfortunately, in certain
 4   A    |   reconciliation of the two sister Churches.  In addition, the same
 5   A    |       sense, a «theology of sister Churches» or an «ecclesiology of
 6   A    |             ecclesiology of sister Churches» is spoken of, characterized
 7   A    |          of the expression «sister Churches,» the Congregation for the
 8   A    |          on the Expression «Sister Churches» which was approved by Pope
 9   B, 1 |           1. The expression sister Churches occurs often in ecumenical
10   B, 2 |           2. The expression sister Churches does not appear as such
11   B, 2 |            existed among the local Churches of Christian antiquity.
12   B, 3 |           these patriarchal sister Churches. In this connection, however,
13   B, 3 |      persons mentioned and not the Churches, and who did not intend
14   B, 5 |          use the expression sister Churches. In welcoming the fraternal
15   B, 5 |           unity between the sister Churches re-established in the near
16   B, 6 |      adopted the expression sister Churches to describe the relationship
17   B, 6 |    relationship between particular Churches: «in the East there flourish
18   B, 6 |     flourish many particular local Churches; among them the Patriarchal
19   B, 6 |         among them the Patriarchal Churches hold first place, and of
20   B, 6 |       ought to exist between local Churches, as between sisters.» 2 ~ ~
21   B, 7 |          sisters is applied to the Churches is the Apostolic Brief Anno
22   B, 7 |     traditional expression “sister Churches,” which the Churches of
23   B, 7 |        sister Churches,” which the Churches of various places used for
24   B, 7 |         another? For centuries our Churches lived in this way like sisters,
25   B, 7 |  rediscovering ourselves as sister Churches.» 3 ~ ~
26   B, 8 |            endeavour of the sister Churches of East and West, for the
27   B, 8 |         Europe: «Hence, with these Churches [the Orthodox Churches]
28   B, 8 |       these Churches [the Orthodox Churches] relations are to be fostered
29   B, 8 |         fostered as between sister Churches, to use the expression of
30   B, 8 |            the particular or local Churches gathered around their Bishop
31   B, 8 |            their Bishop as “sister Churches.” In addition, the lifting
32   B, 8 | traditional designation of “sister Churches” should ever accompany us
33   B, 8 |          of the doctrine of sister Churches.» 6 ~ ~
34   B, 9 |        which the expression sister Churches has assumed in the ecumenical
35   B, 10|           the proper sense, sister Churches are exclusively particular
36   B, 10|         are exclusively particular Churches (or groupings of particular
37   B, 10|            groupings of particular Churches; for example, the Patriarchates
38   B, 10|         when the expression sister Churches is used in this proper sense,
39   B, 10|       mother of all the particular Churches. 8 ~ ~
40   B, 11|           may also speak of sister Churches, in a proper sense, in reference
41   B, 11|          Catholic and non-catholic Churches; thus the particular Church
42   B, 11|            of all other particular Churches. However, as recalled above,
43   B, 11|      particular Church or group of Churches. This is not merely a question
44   B, 11|          therefore the plural term Churches can refer only to particular
45   B, 11|           refer only to particular Churches. ~ ~Consequently, one should
46   B, 11|      formulations such as «our two Churches,» which, if applied to the
47   B, 11|           the totality of Orthodox Churches (or a single Orthodox Church),
48   B, 11|            the level of particular Churches, but also on the level of
49   B, 12|         that the expression sister Churches in the proper sense, as