Status of agreed statements:
Agreed statements have been agreed by the dialogue members and submitted to the sponsoring churches for study. These texts express the careful considerations of the members of the dialogue but are not official statements of either of the churches.
The international joint commission for theological dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church at its plenary meeting in Bari (9-16 June 1987) approved a new statement on “Faith, Sacraments and the Unity of the Church.” This topic had been agreed on at the Munich plenary of 1982