Scans of the Final, Signed Documents from the Cretan Council
Available On-line
Copy of the "Relations"
Text Reveals that many Hierarchs did not sign the document
The final versions of the texts produced
at the Council in Crete have been made available on-line over at the theolcom.ru website. The
text "Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of the Christian
World" will be of particular interest to many, for it shows that even more
hierarchs than previously thought refused to sign the document. Out of 162
Hierarchs present, a total of 33 Hierarchs, or 1 in 5 (20%), did not sign the
document, including 5 from the Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Of all of the
Local Churches represented, the Patriarchate of Serbia stands out with 17 of
the 24 hierarchs withholding their signature. With only 7 or about 30% in
agreement with document, on what basis did the Patriarch of Serbia add his
signature to the document? Given that the Primate's signature was supposed to
express the consensus or at least the majority of his Church, is this not a glaring example of the absence of concilarity and the
reign of a "papal" mentality? Where is the much vaunted concilarity
for which the Cretan Council was called and incessantly hailed in official
propaganda put forward by the Council's spokesmen?
Furthermore, when,
in the history of the Church and General Orthodox Councils, was a document
passed with such a large minority diagreeing and there being no break in
communion or anathematizing by the majority? In other words, when did the Church ever allow for a differing stance on matters
of Faith? To those who would say the text in
question does not set forth doctrine or attempt to define dogma, the response
is that the text is chalk full of dogmatic teaching concerning the Church,
which is an object of faith in which we confess we believe. As Christ is
inseparable from His Body, the Church, so too is Christology inseparable from
Ecclesiology. What we believe about the Church directly reflects our faith in
Christ. Hence, there can be no doubt that the Faith of the Church in Christ is at
stake in the "Relations" text and
there can be no compromises in matters of Faith.
The time for all
bishops, and, indeed, all Orthodox Christians, and especially clergy, to take a
stand and confess the Orthodox Faith in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic
Church over and against the new heretical ecclesiology of
ecumenism, clearly expressed by the "Relations" text, has come. May
many more join the 33 who did not sign the unorthodox document and may they all
together clearly and forthrightly set forth the Orthodox teaching on the
oneness and holiness of the Church to their flock and the entire Church
For your
convenience, we have listed those who did NOT sign the text below, in order of
their appearance in the text:
From the Ecumenical Patriarchate:
1. Isaiah of
Denver
2. Nicholas of
Detroit
3. Amphilochios of
Adrianopolis
4. Antonios of
Hierapolis, Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox in the USA
5. Gregory of
Nyssa, Head of the Carpatho-Russian Orthodox in the USA
From the Patriarchate of Alexandria
6. Jonah of
Kampala
7. Seraphim of
Zimbabwe and Angola
From the Patriarchate of Jerusalem
8. Benedict of
Philadelphia
9. Theophylaktos
of Jordan
From the Patriarchate of Serbia
10. Amphilochios
of Montenegro and the Littoral
11. Porfirije of
Zagreb and Ljubljana
12. Vasilije of
Sirmium
13. Lucian of
Budim
14. Longin of Nova
Gracanica
15. Irinej of
Backa
16. Hrizostom of
Zvornik and Tuzla
17. Justin of
Zicha
18. Pahomije of
Vranje
19. Jovan of
Sumadija
20. Fotije of
Dalmatia
21. Hrizostom of
Bihac and Petrovac
22. Joanikije of
Niksic and Budimlje
23. Milutin of
Valjevo
24. David of
Krusevac
25. Jovan of
Slavonija
26. Ilarion of
Timok
From the Church of Cyprus
27. Athanasios of
Limassol
28. Neophytos of
Morphou
29. Nicholas of
Amathus
30. Epiphanios of
Ledra
From the Church of Greece
31. Chrysostomos
of Peristerion
32. Hierotheos of
Nafpaktos and Aghios Vlasios
33. Anthimos of
Alexandroupolis
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2 σχόλια:
Αλλα ονοματα στην αγγλική κ αλλα στην ελληνικη. Τι ισχυει τελικά ;;;
Ίδια είναι τα ονόματα στο ένα δίνει την λίστα εκείνων που δεν υπέγραψαν και στην άλλη εκείνων που υπέγραψαν. Άρα στην δεύτερη λίστα έχει κενό στην θέση της υπογραφής δεξιά από το όνομα. Στην περίπτωση των δύο της Κύπρου (Λεμεσού Αθανασίου και Μόρφου Νεοφυτου) είναι το γνωστό μεγάλο θέμα που προέκυψε αφού υπέγραφε αντ'αυτών ο Κύπρου Χρυσόστομος, ερήμην τους!!! [βλ. α.α. υπογραφή Χρυσοστόμου]
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