Cyprian wrote:I wasn't aware that formal documents were needed. Are there formal documents signed by the Holy Synod of the GOC of Greece severing communion with all the local churches of so-called "World Orthodoxy"? I would be interested to see them, if they exist.
From the Encyclical of 1935:
On account of this, we counsel all who follow the Orthodox festal calendar to have no spiritual communion with the schismatic Church and its schismatic ministers, from whom the grace of the All-holy Spirit has departed, since they have set at nought the resolutions of the Fathers of the Seven Ecumenical Councils and the Pan-Orthodox Councils that condemned the Gregorian festal calendar.
From the Act of 1957:
We denounce the “official” [church] as innovationist, as schismatic, as cacodox, paving directly towards heresy.
We have no communion with the cacodox “official” [church], not recognizing the validity of its mysteries, not considering its acts and condemnations against us to have any authority.
In 1974 ROCOR wrote to the GOC synod : "Concerning the matter relative to the presence or the non-existence of God's Grace among the followers of the New Calendar, the Russian Church outside of Russia do not consider themselves or any other local Church having the authority to take final decision, as a final settlement of this matter can only be effected through a properly convened competent Oecumenical Council, with the indespensible participation of a free Church of Russia."
Part of the response from the GOC was: "The Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece has no spiritual communication or canonical relations with churches using the Old Calendar (Jerusalem, Serbia, Russia, etc.) but communicate with a Church which follows the New Calendar Innovation, and this because according to St. John Chrysostomos 'he who communicates with the uncommunicable is excommunicated'." The GOC synod then "interrupted" any further relations with ROCOR until the "probable revision" of their "Credo".