Moderator: Mark Templet
BTW a question for Fr. Mark Templet, since he's in ROAC and has access to sources in Russia... just who is this Metropolitan Rafael that Milan-America is in communion with now? I know of the various ROCOR split-offs, but this one is new to me.
Any information?
With love of Christ's Holy Orthodox Church,
Rd. DC
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Never heard of them. They must not be very numerous. I don't know anything about them.
Fr. Mark Templet
ROAC
costaswright wrote:BTW a question for Fr. Mark Templet, since he's in ROAC and has access to sources in Russia... just who is this Metropolitan Rafael that Milan-America is in communion with now? I know of the various ROCOR split-offs, but this one is new to me.
Any information?
With love of Christ's Holy Orthodox Church,
Rd. DC
This group is not a real Catacomb Group, they come from UAOC. Rafael Prokopiev, their leader is a former official of the Red Army. Here (in Russian) you could know more about them.
http://catacomb.org.ua/modules.php?name ... age&pid=46
Fr. Siluan,
Could you direct met to some 'third' party documents? Ones that are not from any specific group, but, from an exterior party?
-Fr. Augustine
“We cannot destroy the Ecclesiastical Canons, who are defenders and keepers of the Canons, not their transgressors.” (Pope St. Martin the Confessor)
I'm referencing more the accusation of 'occult' beliefs or something to that effect, as reflected on the accusations on the RTOC site. I know about all the consecrations and reconsecrations that took place in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Ukrainian patriarchate under Philaret.
“We cannot destroy the Ecclesiastical Canons, who are defenders and keepers of the Canons, not their transgressors.” (Pope St. Martin the Confessor)
Priest Siluan wrote:costaswright wrote:This group is not a real Catacomb Group, they come from UAOC. Rafael Prokopiev, their leader is a former official of the Red Army. Here (in Russian) you could know more about them.
Blagoslovite: Forgive me for asking but aren't some of their bishops originally from the Seraphimo-Gennadites? They aren't UAOC, and they are indisputably a Catacomb Church, except that Abp Lazar of Tambov demanded their reconsecration at his hands.
Fr Joseph Suaidan (Suaiden, same guy)