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by Thomas_Deretich
Thu 16 April 2026 10:36 am
Forum: Political and Social Issues
Topic: Tackiest "ambassador" to Greece imaginable
Replies: 9
Views: 10792

Re: Tackiest "ambassador" to Greece imaginable



Does anyone know anything about this church, which sounds Greek Patriarchate but is apparently on the Old Calendar ? What is the situation with that juxtaposition ?



Yes, I know that church. I had a hotel room nearby for six weeks. The ambassador identified it reasonably accurately as the Holy ...
by Thomas_Deretich
Mon 9 March 2026 5:03 pm
Forum: Heterodox Groupings / Debate
Topic: Thomas Deretich and Name-Worshipping
Replies: 68
Views: 204207

Re: Thomas Deretich and Name-Worshipping

FATHER CHRISTOS PATITSAS'S LETTER OF SEPTEMBER 2012 CONTAINS LEGITIMATE CRITICISM AGAINST THE ANTI-HOCNA SCHISM

I am not happy with what I am hearing, reading, and seeing. The accusation of heresy is a serious one. I cannot condemn my hierarchs on hearsay. As St. Nicodemus retorted, “Doth our law ...
by Thomas_Deretich
Mon 9 March 2026 4:21 pm
Forum: Heterodox Groupings / Debate
Topic: Thomas Deretich and Name-Worshipping
Replies: 68
Views: 204207

Re: Thomas Deretich and Name-Worshipping

Hieromonk Basil of Toronto and other defenders of Metropolitan Makarios of Toronto's 2019 schism, misrepresent the chronology of events. HOCNA and TOC-Makarios of Athens came into communion in May 2013. Troublemakers on Athos and in Australia threatened Makarios of Athens that they would denounce ...
by Thomas_Deretich
Sun 8 March 2026 4:15 pm
Forum: Heterodox Groupings / Debate
Topic: Thomas Deretich and Name-Worshipping
Replies: 68
Views: 204207

Re: Thomas Deretich and Name-Worshipping

Father Christos Patitsas’s letter on the website rightly states that the notorious May 1913 opinion (by Sergius Stragorodskii) contradicts Palamite Orthodoxy and that Demetrius’s side was the aggressor in 2012. Father Christos’s son’s letter focuses on not being isolated (and unable to find spouses ...
by Thomas_Deretich
Sun 8 March 2026 12:17 pm
Forum: Heterodox Groupings / Debate
Topic: Thomas Deretich and Name-Worshipping
Replies: 68
Views: 204207

Re: Thomas Deretich and Name-Worshipping

Today, Orthodox Christians celebrate Saint Gregory Palamas’s defense of ancient Scriptural, synodal, patristic, and liturgical teaching. In contrast, that website Jean-Serge refers to represents the resentments of Hieromonk Basil of Boston (later of Toronto) against his ruling bishops, Metropolitan ...
by Thomas_Deretich
Thu 22 January 2026 7:59 pm
Forum: Heterodox Groupings / Debate
Topic: Timeline Of When Each Local Church Full From Grace
Replies: 35
Views: 91792

Re: Timeline Of When Each Local Church Full From Grace

haralampopoulosjc wrote: ↑Thu 22 January 2026 7:05 pm

the state church of Greece, which was condemned by the Matthewites' 1957 encyclical and was signed by the requisite number of hierarchs.

I don’t believe the loss of grace is contingent on the number of bishops. But I am curious how many bishops you think signed in 1957 or subsequently

by Thomas_Deretich
Thu 22 January 2026 7:07 pm
Forum: Anathemas: Past and Current Heresies
Topic: Agenda for a Future Pan-Orthodox Council
Replies: 18
Views: 37609

Re: Agenda for a Future Pan-Orthodox Council

Wasn’t he ordained a bishop several years after the 2016 meeting?

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