[Cronos]

I'm wondering -- do we think that a future ecumenical council ought to just be the Orthodox and the Catholics -- shouldn't this bring in other Apostolic Churchs? Orientals, Assyrians, Armenians? The Orthodox and Western Churchs have individually started talking to those Apostolic Churchs, perhaps it's time to start talking as a group?

I leave out the Protestant and post-Protestant groups because they range from groups that seem similar to us, to groups that seem to bear no relationship beyond using the word "church".

[Kolokotronis]

“I’m wondering — do we think that a future ecumenical council ought to just be the Orthodox and the Catholics — shouldn’t this bring in other Apostolic Churchs? Orientals, Assyrians, Armenians? The Orthodox and Western Churchs have individually started talking to those Apostolic Churchs, perhaps it’s time to start talking as a group?”

Personally, I think yes if only to finalize the repair of the Monophysite schism and deal with any remaining Nestorianism.

As for the Protestants, I would think absolutely not, except perhaps for a few Anglican and Lutheran hierarchs, the former because some of them really are trying hard to preserve The Faith as it was known in England and the later because there really are a few of them who in fact are in the Apostolic Succession and whose theology is quite Orthodox.