Priest Siluan wrote:I don't have any authority except which gave me my ruler bishop.
I would presume the same holds for Subdeacon Nathaniel, in which case the claim that:
Priest Siluan wrote:personal declarations of Subdeacon Nathaniel are not the oficial points of view of the Russian Ortrhodox Autonomous Church (Free Russian Orthodox Church)
ring pretty hollow.
Clearly Subdeacon Nathaniel's ruler Bishop permits him to speak as a ROAC clergyman when he offers his "personal declarations" and sign himself as:
Brother Nathaniel wrote:+ROAC SUBDEACON nathanael kapner
Confessor - +ROAC Archimandrite Andre' (Maklakov)