Archbishop Makarios of Australia met with the schismatic Community of St. Spyridon in Clayton, Melbourne, today, July 16, at the offices of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia in Sydney.
The Archbishop accepted the Community delegation, consisting of the President, Athanasios Mandalos, the Treasurer, Ioannis Binos, and two former clergymen, Christodoulos Vassilaris and Georgios Athanasiadis.
The Archbishop accepted the call for dialogue to restore the community to ecclesiastical canonicality and promised on his part that he would make every effort to achieve this goal.
At the same time Archbishop Makarios referred to Patriarch Bartholomew’s unifying and loving mood to restore every ecclesiastical non-canonicality.