With­drawal from the NCCC requires for­mal action on the part of the par­tic­i­pat­ing body. Ten years ago the Ukraini­ans were actively involved (at least there were Ukrain­ian Ortho­dox clergy at an event in Dal­las and they were on the offi­cial list of del­e­gates — I was a PCUSA del­e­gate back then).

It could be that even though the Arch­bishop has said he no longer wants to be part of it, that the Arch­dio­cese or the Sobor has not made the for­mal deci­sion to sever ties. The NCCC bureau­cracy is rel­a­tively quick to do things, but being true bureau­crats, if they don’t have the proper doc­u­men­ta­tion signed and in trip­li­cate, the request will never get car­ried out.

You had said in your pre­vi­ous post that SCOBA was a mem­ber of the NCCC. Tech­ni­cally, SCOBA has (or at least had — my info is a decade old) observer sta­tus. That means that they have voice but no vote in actions. There are two rea­sons for that. First, SCOBA has no author­ity, so they could only speak for them­selves, not the mem­ber com­mu­nions. They there­fore didn’t meet the qual­i­fi­ca­tions for full mem­ber­ship. Sec­ond, not every SCOBA body was a mem­ber of the NCCC. It would there­fore be inap­pro­pri­ate for SCOBA to be full blown members.

What an excel­lent sum-up this was! Many thanks, Jim!