His Eminence Metropolitan Job of Pisidia, co-moderetor of the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches, was one of the keynote speakers of the Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order, which took place on 24-28 October 2025 around the theme “Where now for visible unity?” at Wadi El Natrun, a historic centre of Coptic Orthodox monasticism located southwest of Alexandria, Egypt, marking the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325). The event brought together nearly 500 participants from 100 countries and various Christian Churches, among which the Orthodox and Oriental Churches represented 25 percent of the audience. It was the first World Conference held on the African continent and hosted by an Oriental Orthodox Church.
The World Conferences on Faith and Order have been held at key moments in the history of the Ecumenical Movement since the first in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1927, at which the Orthodox delegation included leading hierarchs and theologians such as Metropolitan Germanos (Strinopoulos) of Thyateira, Metropolitan Evlogy (Georgiyevsky), Archbishop Chrysostomos I of Athens, Metropolitan Dionisy (Waledinsky) of Warsaw, Saint Nicholas Velimirovitch, Father Sergius Bulgakov, Nicholas Arseniev and others.
On Sunday 26 October, the Orthodox participants held a Divine Liturgy which was presided by His Eminence Metropolitan Job of Pisidia. On Monday 27 October, the Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox participants were received for an audience by His Holiness Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic Orthodox Church. In their name, Metropolitan Job thanked the Coptic Orthodox Church for their hospitality and underlined the crucial importance of the theological dialogue between Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches.
