Please excuse my ignorance

[tradbulwark]

Please excuse my ignorance. I have another issue needing clarification.

We neither have communion with nor recognize the pseudo-synagogue known as the “Moscow Patriarchate” nor any of the so-called “churches” that are in communion with it or admit that the MP possesses the sacramental grace of the Church. One such group is the Synod headed by Metropolitan Cyprian of Oropos and Fili. According to their ecclesiology, the grace of the Church can exist in churches that are schismatic, contrary to the 1st Canon of St. Basil the Great.

http://www.roacusa.org/believe.php

Holy Ascension is a parish of the Church of Greece, Holy Synod in Resistance, under the jurisdiction of Metropolitan Cyprian of Oropos and Fili (in Greece), Archbishop Chrysostomos and Bishop Auxentios of Etna, California.

http://holyascensionofchrist.org/parish.htm

Parishes under the hotca:

New York
Holy Ascension Church (Russian)*
650 Landing Road North
Rochester, New York 14625-1749
Phone: 585-385-3091
Clergy: Nicholas Chernjavsky, Presbyter
Dr. Peter Bushunow, Deacon

http://hotca.org/directory

I was under the impression the Genuine Orthodox Church (GOC) - AB Kallinikos of Athens had no communion with Cyprian of Oropos and Fili, but at least one of their parishes lists it does.

I was under the impression that all churches listed here: http://www.euphrosynoscafe.com/forum/vi ... =2&t=10260, held the Matthewite/St Basil view that the grace of the Church cannot exist in churches that are schismatic.

Does AB Kallinikos of Athens have communion with Cyprian of Oropos and Fili?

[jgress]

Yes, last year the Synod in Resistance joined with the GOC, after adopting the GOC ecclesiology that heretics are outside the Church.

[jgress]

Since this is the inquirer's forum, I don't want any polemical discussion here. It's known that not everyone agreed with this union, but the GOC produced an ecclesiological statement that you can read and come to your own conclusions:

http://ecclesiagoc.gr/images/stories/Ar ... inalEN.pdf

[jgress]

A critique of the union can be found here:

http://www.orthodoxchristianbooks.com/a ... ox-church/

[tradbulwark]

Thank you.

[Isaakos]

Here is a history for you to read of the GOC in GREECE, pretty detailed.

http://www.svetosavskasrbija.com/sites/ ... ce_goc.pdf

[tradbulwark]

Here is a history for you to read of the GOC in GREECE, pretty detailed.

http://www.svetosavskasrbija.com/sites/ ... ce_goc.pdf

Thank you.