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The Ecclesiastical
Death of Orthodoxy
Proclamation
We herewith announce with great sadness that the Orthodox Church of Greece
(Athens) and the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) knowingly and
intentionally prayed with the excommunicated contrary to Canon 10 (X) of
the 85 Apostolic Canons.
The ethnic Orthodox Church and clergy appear to use the Canons selectively
to favor themselves. In this case they were notified of the
excommunication of a member of the Orthodox Church in America and a member
of the Greek Orthodox Church. A letter was sent to the Ecumenical
Patriarch requesting he contact the heads of both jurisdictions to direct
them to observe these decrees, made by the full Synod against
two laymen who were accused, one of whom publicly acknowledged his use of
Church property without permission, and neither has repented. The Canons direct
that people guilty of theft shall be excommunicated (see c.3 of
the 12
canons, i.e. "For every thief and greedy person and unjust person is
excommunicated and estranged from the Church of God").
After being notified of the full Synod's issuance of the said decrees by
E-mail, facsimile, and U.S. Mail, the Church of Greece ignored the decree
because they state "the Church that issued the decrees is not in communion
[with them]". Their logic is defective here. The Church that issued the
decrees is a canonically established Orthodox Church that was chartered in
1927 by the Russian Synod in North America and now has valid Holy Orders from
the Church of the East (Malabar). All Canonical Orthodox
requirements were met regarding the issuance of the said decrees. The
decrees were based on the simple directive of the Sacred and
Divine Canons claimed by these ethnic clergy as the laws of the Orthodox
Church. The individuals attacked a canonically
established Church, called it a cult, defamed the Metropolitan, knowingly used
Church property without permission, and continued to do
so after
being advised the said property was the legally owned property of the
Church (i.e. copyight & service marked intellectual property). The
Church and clergy were held up to ridicule first by
these thieves and later by
editors of an online Greek orthodox website that referred to this Church
as a self-styled Church and referred to the Metropoltan as if he were a
layman. The Church contacted her attorney who brought in a
specialist to handle the legal aspects of this
matter. The North American Holy Synod handled the ecclesiastical aspects.
The jurisdiction of this Church was included in the said decrees
and is in
fact a valid historical claim.
Decree
It is hereby decreed that by their actions contrary to the Sacred and
Divine Canons (Pedalion) the Greek Orthodox Church (Athens) and the
Orthodox Church in America (OCA) knowingly and intentionally placed
themselves outside and above the Sacred Canons and made themselves
schismatic and heretical groups as interpreted in the said Canons.s the
Canons require. The actions of the Greek Orthodox Church and the OCA
violated the Sacred and Divine Canons, and that action supported the
attack on this Church. The Canons are clear, "If anyone pray in company
with one who has been excommunicated, he shall be excommunicated himself"
(Canon 10 (X) of the 85 Apostolic Canons).
The Orthodox disregard the Sacred Canons which they use injudiciously and
only selectively in their favor and therefore excommunicate themselves by
their own acts through the Canons.
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