costaswright wrote:Abp. Hilarion has been retired and out of the picture for quite a while now. As for Bp. Pavlos, when he was alive, ... I visited his parish one Sunday morning during the time when I was looking into joining the Milan Synod, and was surprised to find it closed. Hwe said his health was so bad that he couldn't serve and it turned out his priest was off in Greece for a visit... so no services. But we did have a nice chat, sitting in one of the pews in his parish (nice church building - reminded me of the ones we have in our own GOA), and of course he made it clear that his "diocese" consisted of just his parish and anybody else considering Milan had to go to Abp. John, which of course I did.
Your selective editing is amazing and disgraceful at the same time. Metropolitan John has been conferring with Abp Hilarion weekly on all these matters (and recently almost daily). He is in fine health, though he's getting older. As for Bishop Pavlos(memory eternal), he had been in poor health for years. Of course, he's reposed, so we can't confirm whether he told the truth or not: but now, let's put these matters to rest. You say you were in QUEENS, NY, looking to join the Milan Synod. You were told to go to Archbishop John, a bus ride away from Manhattan. (I've done that ride-- it's about an hour and a half).
You said you went to him. Did you or not? Or is this another one of your fantasy scenarios? It's easy to conjure up the dead for your stories. How much of it can be corroborated by the living? And why did you go to Maspeth, of all places, when you were a bus ride away from the Archbishop's monastery? You claimed you wanted to start a mission then, I remember it well. Why visit a vicar Bishop to do so when you were commuting distance away from the Archbishop?
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