Well glory be to God, he did realize his error, and he might have sincere repentance... Now time to catch up on all the other things. I wonder who this "walled off elder" he is speaking of was, a non-commemorator more than likely by the terminology used. Maybe Neophytos will end up as the Bishop for that movement of episcopate-less anti-ecumenist non-commemorator movement in Greece and elsewhere, who hold to Cyprianite ecclesiology.
I will say, and this might just be me being suspicious, but he's been praying with heretics for ages and now all the sudden when he got caught on camera, now it's an issue. I can't say if he's truly sorry or if he's only sorry that he got caught. And he still has never addressed why he signed the documents produced at Crete in 2016, or why he will do interfaith marriages. Maybe this will change all of that and he might actually be against Ecumenism now? I always saw him more as one of those types who was only against Ecumenism insofar as praying with "non-Christians"" like Muslims or Jews and not with say, Papists or Protestants.
As our dearest brother Feodor from Louisiana pointed out on the situation was that there seems to be a lack of discernment as he needed to go to an elder to be told that this was indeed common prayer with heretics... Now I'm not claiming to have discernment, because I don't, but that seems rather self-evident, and Bishops are supposed to be familiar with the Canons. Our brother also noted that the Neophytos cultists are actually, ironically, justifying this action and Ecumenism by large by making such statements as "well he's allowed to have friends that are against Ecumenism"...
I don't know how this scenario will unfold but there's a lot of moving parts and variables here that might play out in an interesting fashion, if God wills it.
post scriptum and completely unrelated: I've always been annoyed by the term "walling off" as it was used by Cyprian of Orofos and Fili and he claimed the Studites were simply "walled off" and they still accepted the mysteries of heretics. Other than this factually not being the case, I actually love his book on the Studites, but his whole thing of portraying himself as "moderates" and the Florinites and all other True Orthodox as "zealots" -- to which I would reference Fr. Seraphim Rose on zeal, I wonder who else likes to call all True Orthodox "zealots" hmm...
Main issue is that it implies there's still different ways to deal with heresy and that there's a "correct, loving" way and that people who don't do this are "overzealous and unloving", when historically, the Florinites did nothing different than what the Studites did. But of course the HSiR was full of this "elite ecclesiology" and pseudo-intellectualism and aura that they knew better than everyone else.