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[bogoliubtsy]

This will surely shock the socks off Julianna and OOD, but Holy Transfiguration Monastery(HOCNA) is down the road from my house...and you know what? I have a very nice relationship with a wonderful monk there, and visit when I can. As extreme as their ecclesiology is, my attending an OCA parish has never been an obstacle to their being very friendly, caring and hospitable people. This is especially true of one monk there. I don't agree with their positions, nor have I gotten to know their hierarchy... but some seem like very good people.
I've only been really "accosted" about being in the OCA once there, and that was by a lay person.

Still though, I think the good monks have been very, very misled.

[Julianna]

You'd be better off visiting the GOC Church near you in Ipswich.

[Savva24]

This will surely shock the socks off Julianna and OOD, but Holy Transfiguration Monastery(HOCNA) is down the road from my house...and you know what? I have a very nice relationship with a wonderful monk there, and visit when I can. As extreme as their ecclesiology is, my attending an OCA parish has never been an obstacle to their being very friendly, caring and hospitable people. This is especially true of one monk there. I don't agree with their positions, nor have I gotten to know their hierarchy... but some seem like very good people.
I've only been really "accosted" about being in the OCA once there, and that was by a lay person.

Still though, I think the good monks have been very, very misled.

Yea Josh,

I know what you meen. I have had nothing but wonderful expiriences there and met very wonderful people there too. Although I never got lectured for being in ROCOR, I did have priests refuse to give me a blessing, whatever that means. I stopped going when the accusations against Fr. Panteleimon became undeniable and I started comming into contact with people molested by him. I chose to deny that any Orthodox could do anything like that for a long time. I do think, like you said, there are many good monks there who don't know a thing about what Fr. Panteleimon has done, being naive enough (like me ) to think that such a kind and charismatic monk would never do anything like that.

In Christ,

Nicholas (Savva)

[尼古拉前执事]

I think the GOC Greeks we are in communion have these temples

The Holy and Sacred Monastery of the Holy Protection (Agia Skepi)
His Eminence, Metropolitan kyr Niphon of Piraeus
Kerateas 190 01
Attiki, Greece
Phone: 011-30-10-996-9813
Fax: 011-30-10-994-2065

Holy Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church
Protopresbyter Chariton Regas
610 Edinburg Rd.
Trenton, NJ 08619
Phone: 609-587-0279
Website: http://www.htgoc.com

The Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Resurrection
Protopresbyter Victor Melehov
Priest Michael Marcinowski
Hieromonk Nikifor
63 Laurel Street
Worcester, MA 01605-3069
Phone: 508-752-7813

The Orthodox Church of Saint John the Russian
Archpriest Spyridon Schneider
16 Mt. Pleasant Ave.
Ipswich, MA 01938
Phone: 978-356-1207
Website: http://www.stjohntherussian.com

Saint Cosmas Aitolos Orthodox Church
Priest Athanasios Kampalis
2817 Saint Clair Avenue E.
Toronto, Ontario M4B 1N3
CANADA
Phone: 416-751-3220

Saint Spyridon Orthodox Church
Priest Steven Allen
24301 Greater Mack Avenue
St. Clair Shores, MI 48080
Phone: 810-773-9750

Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Christian Church
Priest Christopher Johnson
1071 S. Jasper Street
Aurora, CO 80017
Phone: 303-369-3359

Saint Menas Orthodox Christian Chapel
19105 SW 354 Street
Florida City, Florida 33034-5323
Phone: 305-245-0249

I pray for the reunion of the GOC as one.

The Lamian GOC site went down over a month ago. I tried to contact the webmaster to no avail, so I think the site is down for good and this is now the only online list (that I know of) listing all their parishes in the United States of America!

[Julianna]

I think the GOC Greeks we are in communion have these temples

The Holy and Sacred Monastery of the Holy Protection (Agia Skepi)
His Eminence, Metropolitan kyr Niphon of Piraeus
Kerateas 190 01
Attiki, Greece
Phone: 011-30-10-996-9813
Fax: 011-30-10-994-2065

Holy Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church
Protopresbyter Chariton Regas
610 Edinburg Rd.
Trenton, NJ 08619
Phone: 609-587-0279
Website: http://www.htgoc.com

The Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Resurrection
Protopresbyter Victor Melehov
Priest Michael Marcinowski
Hieromonk Nikifor
63 Laurel Street
Worcester, MA 01605-3069
Phone: 508-752-7813

The Orthodox Church of Saint John the Russian
Archpriest Spyridon Schneider
16 Mt. Pleasant Ave.
Ipswich, MA 01938
Phone: 978-356-1207
Website: http://www.stjohntherussian.com

Saint Cosmas Aitolos Orthodox Church
Priest Athanasios Kampalis
2817 Saint Clair Avenue E.
Toronto, Ontario M4B 1N3
CANADA
Phone: 416-751-3220

Saint Spyridon Orthodox Church
Priest Steven Allen
24301 Greater Mack Avenue
St. Clair Shores, MI 48080
Phone: 810-773-9750

Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Christian Church
Priest Christopher Johnson
1071 S. Jasper Street
Aurora, CO 80017
Phone: 303-369-3359

Saint Menas Orthodox Christian Chapel
19105 SW 354 Street
Florida City, Florida 33034-5323
Phone: 305-245-0249

I pray for the reunion of the GOC as one.

The Lamian GOC site went down over a month ago. I tried to contact the webmaster to no avail, so I think the site is down for good and this is now the only online list (that I know of) listing all their parishes in the United States of America!

thanks for you're keeping it up! says "Madame" Julianna

[Arsenios]

"ROAC is the creation of former ROCOR bishop Valentine of Suzdal, who's been convicted of molesting young men in Russia. He has with him as co-bishops the former ROCOR hieromonk Anthony Grabbe, who stole millions of dollars from our mission in Jerusalem before being defrocked and who participated in the events which ended in Met. Vitaly living in Montreal, and the former ROCOR hieromonk Gregory Abu-Asali a jurisdiction-hopper."

Those roac people don't sound very Orthodox. I hope you are staying away from them Methodius!

[Methodius]

Those roac people don't sound very Orthodox. I hope you are staying away from them Methodius!

That was just a cut and paste I had heard about them at that time. None of the above men have been in jail and if they stole or molested I am sure they would. From everything I have read I now believe the following:

When Father Valentin joined the ROCOR they investigated these claims that came to be after he left the MP to get people to leave them. They found the claims to be false and even made him a bishop! When Bishop Valentin created the ROAC after various things happened in ROCOR, including Kyprian communion the MP leveled the charges again after they got a former-ROAC priest to go MP. This is the same former priest that tells people to burn ROAC churches, monasteries, houses for the homeless & disabled, orphanages, etc. Now Metropolitan Valentin asked to be taken to court to prove the charges false.

The theft claims cannot be substantiated and no charges were ever filed. Ecumenists hate Grabbe.

Finally, Bishop Gregory grew up Antiochian and was related to the first Metropolitanin America of that church actually! He went to ROCOR at the lifting of the anathemas by the EP as he could not be in communion with the EP after this. He left ROCOR over Cyprian communion and joined the GOCs not knowing of ROAC. When he learned of the ROAC he asked for canonical release and joined ROAC.

I do not look at them as bad, evil, or heterodox, rather I look at the ecclesiology and wonder if ti is correct to be that extreme or to have the Kyprian ecclesiology that ROCOR has adopted.