They were very apologetic and explained that not everyone thought like that, of course. The session was quite disturbing because it referred to some of the majority Orthodox Eastern European countries as "unreached." I came out of this thinking, "What do you mean by unreached? Christianity has been there for decades and in some cases centuries." We met again, and I flagged this. I received an email inviting me to lunch with them, and so I went and had lunch. They asked who I was-I was dressed in my cassock within our tradition we're always vested in cassocks. So a lot of the people there had never seen an Orthodox clergyman before. Obviously, the Lausanne Movement is an Evangelical movement-among 4,000 Evangelicals, I was one of only four Orthodox who were there. They asked who I was and what I was doing there. While having my coffee, I noticed two people sitting to my left. I arrived late on the first day sessions had already started, and it had been a long journey to South Africa, so I decided to go and have a cup of coffee. It was the first meeting they had had in nearly twenty years. I received an invitation from the Lausanne Movement to attend their meeting in Capetown in 2010. How did you become involved with the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative? Bishop Angaelos is the co-chair of the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative, "a movement of Orthodox and Evangelical Christians who wish to respect each other's beliefs, learn from each other, and support one another as we each obey the call to share in God's mission" ( Bishop Angaelos See The following interview took place during a meeting of the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative, on September 19, 2014, at St. He travels extensively to speak at various youth conferences and conventions. He was consecrated bishop in 1999 and is active ecumenically at the local, national, and international levels. He served as private secretary to the late Pope Shenouda until 1995, when he was delegated to serve a parish in the U.K. Bishop Angaelos of the Coptic Orthodox Churchīishop Angaelos is General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom.