The so-called “Mainline” Orthodoxy is all a buzz of late regarding the positioning by the Patriarchate of Constantinople as the Ecumenical Patriarch assumes authority beyond honor over various local Orthodox Churches in the diaspora especially those in America. At the sametime, the Antiochian Church has experienced its own shake up as the Holy Synod in Damascus in effect recinded their American Church’s autocephalacy.
Amongst our various blogs we have previously offered statements against what is essentially the heresy of neo-Papism which is an outgrowth of the heresy of Ecumenism implanted in the Orthodox Church by the notorious heresarch Patriarch Meletios Metaxakis of Constan-tinople during the early 20th Century. Metaxakis, who was openly a Mason and manipulated his elections onto both the Thrones of Constantinople and Alexandria although he had previously been deposed. He introduced the Gregorian Calendar into the Orthodox Church, despite previous condemnations and anathemas by various Patriarchs. He not only encouraged joint prayer between Orthodox and Heterodox but assisted in founding the Ecumenical Movement. Successive Patriarchs from Constantinople have taken up Metaxakis’ Masonic Madness in watering down the prestine Faith of The Church that is rightly called Orthodox.
The Autonomous Orthodox Church of Western Europe and the Americas (an offspring of the True Orthodox Church of Greece) has often been criticized by individuals attached to ‘mainline’ Orthodox Churches that we surely could not be canonical because we are not in communion with nor recognized by Constantinople. Now that it is perhaps clearer that the EP intention is to control as many local Churches in the diaspora as possible that our detractor might begin to understand that a local Church’s canonical status does not depend upon the recognition of the EP or other Patriarchate. Such would be akin to Roman papism in the fallen Western Church.
From our moderate Traditional Orthodox perspective we are likewise concerned about the EP’s influence of theological syncreticism which makes Ecumenical relations with non-Orthodox and non-Christians possible. The EP’s efforts to enter into communion with Rome without Rome’s conversion, repentance or cleansing of its various heresies and irregularities is likewise an abandonment of True Orthodoxy. The adoption of the Gregorian or so-called “Revised Julian” Calendar is but a symptom of contemporary realitivism (among many other innovations) amongst mainline Orthodox while being a sign of the Masonic Madness that continues to fester in many jurisdictions.
The following are a variety of articles that address the status and problems with the modern Patriarchate of Constantinople:
The Canonical Status of the Patriarch of Constantinople in the Orthodox Church.
We recently posted this paper by the late Archbishop Gregory of Alaska (+April 14, 2008) on a Yahoo! Group amidst their conversation regarding the OCA Metropolitan Jonah’s various statements in response to a representative of the Phanar speking at Holy Cross Seminary. We were surprised that (to the best of our awareness) only Fr Gregory Jensen had taken notice of this article’s significance and reproduced it on his Paradosis blog. (hattip: Fr Gregory).
CANONICAL CHURCHES: What Does It Mean ?
Some thoughts on equating “Canonicity” with “Recognition” as a false guide of one’s Orthodoxy
Orthodox Ecclesiology in Outline
Constantinople’s unilateral encroachment (Again?)
The Decline of the Patriarchate of Constantinople
By ST. JOHN (MAXIMOVITCH) OF SAN FRANCISCO
Living Martyrdom of the Monks of ESPHIGMENOU MONASTERY – MOUNT ATHOS
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