Has Greece recognized the OCU? No. If she is sending men to be hierarchs there, what is happening is not jiving with what is being officially un-professed.
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(Romfea) - Archimandrite Epiphanius Demetriou was elected by the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Church of Ukraine.
This development comes to fully confirm the report of romfea.gr, which cited in a publication the intention of the Head of the Autocephalous Church of Ukraine to elect a Greek Bishop.
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Apparently a single rogue bishop allowed this guy to transfer to the OCU, and he did this without consent of the synod.
ReplyDeleteIt occurs to me that the new Ukrainian government can choose to be as anti-OCU as Poroshenko’s was in favor of it and that when a new Rada is sworn in they could vote to exclude such interlopers from Ukrainian territory. This Fener meddling in Ukraine is comparable on a smaller scale to Russian aggression in the Donbas.
ReplyDeleteExactly right Van. I have always thought that some of the people who got the shortest end of the stick when it comes to Ukraine is the supporters of autocephaly, and those who are in the schismatic groups, because all Constantinople did by invading the territory of the Ukranian Orthodox Church is ensure that the schismatics are never truly brought back into the church. Lots of pro-fanar people like to talk the talk about the "boundless compassion" of the EP by "bringing all these people into the church" but all it did is sell the autocephalists short by giving them a Constantinople controlled, unrecognized, politically dependant, schismatic structure, delaying and sort of actual re-unification or church self-government in Ukraine indefinitely. But, hopefully that will change after Archbishop Chrysostom II of Cyprus does his thing. God Bless him!
DeleteMetropolitan Ignatios of Demetrias, the former bishop of Epiphanios Dimitriou, is a well-known "progressiv" and very public relations-oriented hierarch. He has also honored publicly Metropolitan John Zizioulas...
ReplyDeleteIt might be clearer in the original Greek, but are we sure the Metropolitan and priest in question are in the Church of Greece rather than simply being "Greek Orthodox Christians" in Greece but under the EP? Not all in Greece are under the Church of Greece.
ReplyDeleteMetropolitan Ignatios is indeed in the Church of Greece....
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