A United American Orthodox Church

I don't know about anyone else, but I believe that Orthodox Americans have waited long enough -- in fact, too long -- for the establishment of a united American Orthodox Church. Such a church would unite the various Orthodox ethnic jurisdictions into one spiritual and harmonious Orthodox Church.

I believe that this goal has not been achieved because the motherland countries and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople do not want to relinquish their control of the various ethnic jurisdictions. I find this desire for power and control to be ironic -- even sacrilegious -- because Christ did not want His Church to be subdivided into various ethnic or national divisions; rather, Christ wanted His Church to be solidified in one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.