This idea has been floating around for many years and perhaps we are finally going to get some resolution to many problems that have come up over the years.
In the Orthodox world a synod of all the worlds bishops is very rare and I cannot for the life of me remember the date of the last one but it was decades ago. Many questions need to be answered including the churches in the New World, yes that would be us.
Here is an update from a blog I just found. Byzantine Texas, check it out it is a great blog.
let us hope they can get together and work for the good of the orthodox faith and let no ego get in the way.we all need to pray very hard so they are inspired with true answeres not business as usual.linda