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Okay Father, last night on the stream, you claimed that the population of the True Orthodox of Greece is 40% of the 10.4 million population. That's straight-up dishonest.


No it isn't. I said it could be.
I'm ok with 20 percent, 30 percent, but again I'm going by MP claims and the current ...

How would the Patriarchs of Constantinople under Ottoman rule not qualify as "proto-Sergianist"? The Ecumenical Patriarch was an official of the Turkish government, who levied taxes on the Christians on behalf of the state, a state which was actively destroying Churches or converting them to Mosques ...

Okay Father, last night on the stream, you claimed that the population of the True Orthodox of Greece is 40% of the 10.4 million population. That's straight-up dishonest.


No it isn't. I said it could be.
I'm ok with 20 percent, 30 percent, but again I'm going by MP claims and the current ...

I'm actually surprised Mark Arndt is against the war, considering he has glorified this Communist "Martyr" Aleksandr Schmorrel and to my knowledge, still refuses to recognize the Royal Martyrs as Martyrs (in the 1980s after the glorification Royal Martyrs by the ROCOR he refused to do so ...

I never accused you of lying, Father. I'm just glad to see that you're providing some sources.

Didn't think you were. I just generally "steelman" opposing arguments, as the kids say. If I'm wrong, at best I'm mistaken, but at worst I'm lying. So I just go with the worst assumption.


Okay ...

SavaBeljovic wrote: ↑Sat 26 July 2025 1:42 pm

One last attachment I'll link, I put the life in a PDF for anyone who would prefer to read it that way rather than on the St. Euphrosynos Cafe.

He should probably be canonized at some point.

In Greece: Elder Joseph the Cave-Dweller. By all accounts, he started commemorating Athenagoras in 1950. He had a very negative reaction to the 1950 encyclical issued by Metropolitan Chrysostom of Florina, which stated that the New Calendarist State Church was schismatic and devoid of grace. Some ...