SOS, SOS, SOS:ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL IS ATTACKED AND IN DANGER

[Schism Jumper]

Ummmm.... is anyone else slightly worried by these official statements?

I only read the parts put in bold (which I assume are considered to be the worst parts), and scanned the rest, but I didn't see anything particularly offensive or unOrthodox.

[Priest Siluan]

Dear Brothers:

Here, photograph about a poster that was good as propaganda to the Bolsheviks and Sergianist to attack the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (Buenos Aires), on the Feast of St Nicholas of Myra.

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[gphadraig]

Thank you, Siluan, and may I ask impose and ask for a translation in English for us ignorant non-Spanish readers like myself?

[Priest Siluan]

Ok, Dear Brother:

Tomorrowo, I will try to translate it for you.

With Love in Christ

Siluan

[Priest Siluan]

Dear Brothers:

I think (and I am informed) that the building of the Holy Trinidad Cathedral is Argentinean National Monument (THAT IS TO SAY its property is not of ROCOR), therefore the MP is not able to "to remove them" to ROCOR such a property.

I know the Government gives the building to ROCOR (so that the services etc. etc), what can make the MP is by means of their linkings with the Argentinean government (and by means their propaganda against ROCOR) to make that they expel ROCOR and that the Government gives the Cathedral (I again reiterate, National Monument) to the MP

With Love in Christ

Siluan

[George Australia]

I only read the parts put in bold (which I assume are considered to be the worst parts), and scanned the rest, but I didn't see anything particularly offensive or unOrthodox.

What I find disturbing and unorthodox is that:
1) "The Moscow Patriarchate" is to be considered equivalent to the "Russian Orthodox Church", and
2) The Patriarch of Moscow (and not the Holy Synod) governs the Moscow Patriarchate and he therefore governs the Russian Orthodox Church.
This seems to me to be a departure from the Sobor/Concilliar understanding of Orthodox ecclesiology. All bishops are equal in Orthodoxy according to our Canons- the first heirarch is first in honour, not in authority.

[Schism Jumper]

George Australia, I suppose that I read what was written while granting a bit more leeway in interpretation. I think the Moscow Patriarchate has come a long way in how they word things. Also, I don't see anything wrong with a Patriarchate, or a Synod, or any other type of artificially imposed system of administration that the Church has seen fit to use over the years. But perhaps I am not seeing what is really going on, it wouldn't be the first time. I'll definately keep my eye open.