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The two facilitators for dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches in Brooklyn are Msgr. Guy Massie and the Very Reverend Eugene Pappas Archimandrite.  Father Steven Aguggia and Father Thomas Malhalski speak for the Roman Catholic Church, while Rev. Nikoderm Gromuff of the Russian Orthodox Church and Fr. John Garvey from the Armenian Orthodox Church, speak for the Orthodox Churches. 

This dialogue meets monthly and discusses many theological issues that divide, as well as unite us.  Among the concerns of this dialogue are: the history of the relationship between the Eastern and Western Church, their respective view of each other, the theology of Grace, the Sacraments, the Church, the Incarnation and Redemption.