tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post5879197182296286274..comments2024-03-22T11:37:52.668-05:00Comments on Byzantine, Texas: Church of Czech Lands & Slovakia celebrates autocephalyByzantine, TXhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17845681957622343484noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-71280358823914100872019-08-28T14:59:38.923-05:002019-08-28T14:59:38.923-05:00I suppose on the one hand, it's good that the ...I suppose on the one hand, it's good that the EP got involved in places like Poland, Finland, Estonia, and later Latvia. For political reasons, no Russian church, ROCOR, MP,or other was allowed in these former lands of the Russian empire. The one exception was Lithuania, where the few Orthodox were Russian or Belarusian; virtually no ethnic Lithuanians. There was a Metropolitan under the MP.<br /> But the Czechoslovak mission was another matter. I would not be surprised if it could be proven that Archbishop Savaty was involved in some kind of Masonic skullduggery. This would have fit in with Meletios Metaxakis and Czech President Masaryk.<br /> Fr. Savaty was a Czech priest Monk from Volhynia in Western Ukraine. Some Czechs had settled there when it was still part of Russia. Many of them became Orthodox.BorisJojicjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02796218761394313699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-11006384802517883972019-08-27T21:29:10.405-05:002019-08-27T21:29:10.405-05:00This is exactly right. When a young hieromonk (now...This is exactly right. When a young hieromonk (now a canonized saint) Alexis Kabaliuk from Carpatho Rus' presented himself and his credentials to Ecumenical Patriarch Joachim III seeking his omophorion, Alexis was told by the Ecumenical Patriarch himself to go to the Serbian Church in Karlovci, because they had jurisdiction over the area. So the "Return to Orthodoxy" movement among Greek Catholic Carpatho-Rusyns and the discovery of Orthodoxy movement among Czechs was under the auspices of the Serbian Church.<br /><br />Once the mission to restore Orthodoxy in Hungary-turned-Czechoslovakia proved successful, Ecumenical Patriarch Meletios Metaxakis "remembered" that these lands ACTUALLY always and for ages of ages belonged to the jurisdiction of Constantinople and appointed Bishop Savaty Vrabec. Plus ça change...Borthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13286815250863499793noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-52437676781361939132019-08-27T20:02:53.925-05:002019-08-27T20:02:53.925-05:00I'm sorry I don't quite get it. But the Cz...I'm sorry I don't quite get it. But the Czechoslovak mission was a mission of the Serbian church. This was based on a Hungarian law recognizing all Orthodox in their kingdom as belonging to the Serbian church. At least, that's what I read.<br /> But here too, Constantinople got into the act and interfered by consecration of a rival Czech bishop, Savatty.BorisJojicjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02796218761394313699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-40761548419186551362019-08-27T15:10:52.707-05:002019-08-27T15:10:52.707-05:00Oof.Oof.The Anti-Gnostichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04386593803225823789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-10310350743526202602019-08-27T14:28:01.009-05:002019-08-27T14:28:01.009-05:00Ha! I literally laughed out loud at this insightfu...Ha! I literally laughed out loud at this insightful comment, Jake.<br /><br />Your question raises an interesting point though...I reckon that it will happen as soon as the EP feels Mayan Orthodoxy has achieved "canonical maturity", and, of course, they must do so without a hint of ethnophyletism.Timmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06833797224685670708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-39157238023033786382019-08-27T11:13:47.054-05:002019-08-27T11:13:47.054-05:00When will Mayan Orthodoxy be coming to the Czech L...When will Mayan Orthodoxy be coming to the Czech Lands?Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73042886598650075.post-22462071620623128842019-08-27T11:12:27.274-05:002019-08-27T11:12:27.274-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16152024447008244670noreply@blogger.com