Demission of Gabriel (de Vylder) of "Comana" Paris

[Archimandrit Nilos]

Very interesting and incontistent, that's also ridiculous: In the Crypte of the Cathedral rue Daru (the so called "Archbishopric of Russian Tradition under Constantinople) we find the New Papiste Calendar, and in the Sober above the Old Calendar. All what you want !!

[Archimandrit Nilos]

Hardly to believe: at the same time and the same place: Downstairs in the Crypte the New Papiste Calendar and above in the Sobor the Old !

[Jean-Serge]

Last news from Paris. Let us remember the previous events! After a rigged election, Archimandrite Job was elected Archibishop of the Russian Exarchate in Western Europe. The events confirm that he is now imposing his rule and slowly crushing the dissenters. The method is simple : free existing priests from them functions as dean, rector and so on, and nominate new ones, faithful to him. The Phanar does not bother him, and even more seems to support him, because one priest, supposed to be a dissenter, was deprived by the Phanar from its honourary title of protopresbyter of the ecumenical throne. According to me, the dissenters are deprived from any serious option : their open letter only gathered 500 signatures, even if some names are quite important.

The interesting thing would be to understand what is the final aim of this campaign :

• just personal disagreement between the new archbishop and a clique that used to have the upper hand
• is there a secret agreement between Moscow and Constantinople on the topic, to handover some pieces of the Exarchate or the whole to Moscow in exchange of the panorthodox council?

Meanwhile, the dissenters seem not to ask the right questions and realize that the situation is the consequence of the exarchate history. It fled to Constantinople to escape Moscow (from Charybde to Sylla), was ecumenistic, with no clear vision of its destiny, half-uniate and so on.

[Jean-Serge]

The crisis deepens at Rue Daru. The last weeks were marked by the removal and nomination of priests without concertation. There was also this opposition between the Archbishop Job, willing to audit the theology institute Saint Serge, and the professors, who refused. The conflict between both is reaching a new degree since the professors decidedto deliver no classes for year 2015-16.

Meanwhile, the direction of the exarchate is still unclear. Is Archbishop Job in charge of executing some orders of the Phanar previously agreed with Moscow; in exchange for instance of the famous panorthodox council. Is he acting on his own, wishing to establish his authority? Very difficult to say.

[Archimandrit Nilos]

More and more I have the impression this very ecumenistic so called "Archbishopric of Russian Tradition" with his "Theological Institute" St-Serge is not other as a continuation of the modernistic Renovatist Church of Russia, the so called "Erneuererkirche".

[Jean-Serge]

Well, some "fun" in the crisis. The opponents of Archbishop Job released 2 pictures of him (without clerical dress) attending Roland Garros, the French tennis open on clay.

[Maria]

Reminds me of Archbishop Joseph of the Antiochians who also sports civies.