Milan Synod concelebrates with MP

[costaswright]

Good to see the GOA has a future.

It's the Church that saves us, not the other way around.

Well, yes, but... the GOA isn't the Church.

On the contrary, it's your little conventicle that isn't the Church... but the Spirit of God is blowing through all of you to call you all back to the Church. I see more and more of you answering His call.

Glory to God!

Rd. DC

[jgress]

Maybe we should avoid this kind of name-calling. Certainly the position of most True Orthodox is that the World Orthodox have now completely fallen away from the Church, while most WO consider us schismatics in turn. Since this is a TO forum, I can say there's definitely a bias in favor of the former view, but I don't want to prevent WO from participating and making their views known, as long as its done with respect. So let's try to keep it civil.

[Ekklisiastikos]

Is Aggelos of Aulona still in communion with Eulogios of Milano?
And what about Met. John? Does he have any other bishop in US with him?
What about those two auxiliaries? any info, any pictures..?

[Suaidan]

Is Aggelos of Aulona still in communion with Eulogios of Milano?

UPDATED: Sorry about that! I guess it is more clear!

The Greeks have now officially broken communion with Milan. I assume the Americans, Bulgarians and Russians will shortly endorse or produce similar statements.

http://www.metropolsynodgoc.com/communion.html

With the statement allegedly representing the European Metropolia that there is no longer any communion with those outside World Orthodoxy ( http://ihtis.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/statement-2/ ) our American Metropolia, as well as the Greek, Bulgarian and Russian Metropolias, seem to have taken a de facto position of broken communion (Edit: the Greeks and the Americans have now made this their de jure position).

And what about Met. John? Does he have any other bishop in US with him?

Metropolitan John has two Bishops with him and an Episcopal candidate slated to be consecrated this year. Archbishop Hilarion of Texas has become more active recently, and a new Bishop was consecrated in Milan a few weeks before the schism. Unfortunately, we discovered later that the Tomos given us was a way of "freeing the hands" of the Italians to join with the Moscow Patriarchate. Metropolitan John, therefore, contacted the Bishops of the other regions, who each recognized their full communion with us, and soon will deal with the question of the Western European Metropolia together. Further, there is the possibility that a new Bishop will be made for one of our Sister Churches in the US, and will therefore be in full communion with us as well.

What about those two auxiliaries? any info, any pictures..?

There is a picture of Bishop Porphyrios on the official website of the American Metropolia ( http://milansynodusa.org ). As the other one has not yet been consecrated, there are no pictures of him as a Bishop.

[Suaidan]

Sorry, not Porphyrios. Bp Phanourios.