We will continue to carry the historical burden of our separated churches, as baggage and inheritance.

The connections between the now administratively separated churches continued in many ways.

It allowed the Church to hold reasonable property, separated church from politics, prohibited religious indoctrination in public schools, and even allowed authorities to select a bishop from 3 candidates presented.

An underground episcopate was created and its monophysite elements can be traced today in the history of a number of schismatic or separated churches - the Copts of Egypt, the Armenians, the Ethiopians and the Syrian Jacobites.

Another new Chilean Constitution provided for direct election of the president by the people and separated church and state.

It follows that these separated churches and Communities, though we believe they suffer from defects, are deprived neither of significance nor importance in the mystery of salvation.

The Second Vatican Council affirmed rather that Eastern Catholics constituted churches, whose vocation was to provide a bridge to the separated churches of the East.

However, in the late 1800's the church and state separated, this area is represented by the Millington Parish Council.

Therefore theologians might find a dogmatic basis for union between separated churches.

This speaks primarily to the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches, but also to "separated churches in the West", which is understood to be a reference to Old Catholics.