Chrysostomos wrote:Being part of the "World Orthodoxy" group that Fr. Siluan mentions, I will have to disagree that they feel that they are the only orthodox churches in their respective countries or the world.
I would agree since many are so deep in ecumenism that there are true Churches outside of World Orthodoxy, such as the Antiochian and Alexandrian patriarchates with the Monophysites and the EP when it comes to Roman Catholicism or Protestant Religions like Luthernaism. But generally speaking, the same hierarchs that feel this way do not consider the traditionalist Orthodox Churches to be Orthodox. Just in the last year the OCA's Met Herman talked how he hoped the ROCOR would come back to the Church even though the OCA is a schism from the ROCOR!
Chrysostomos wrote:As to the Canons, we all have broken them, regardless of Traditional or World Orthodox. I can quote some, but let it suffice to say, it wouldn't matter. What would it prove, who would benefit?
That is true, but there is a difference in canons that speak of the dogmatic faith and canons that are a matter of discipline. Breaking a canon and being in communing and concelebrating with Monophysites or Toman Catholics is a very different thing than ordaining a bishop at the age of 34. One is heretical, one is not. Ekonomia on the part of bishops is allowed in the later situation, but not in matters of faith as the first example is.
