Orthodox Ethos-Fr Peter Heers

[eish]

Link broken?

Try this:

https://www.youtube.com/live/u18swCMcYCA

[Barbara]

Thanks, eish, I meant to access that but it may not have been put up that fast anyway I figured. Appreciate your postig that link

Everybody, take your time, but it would be great to hear your reactions after watching !

[Barbara]

At around the 30 minute mark, Fr Peter refers to himself as "Archbishop Peter".
Unlike a later example like this in the video, the controversial clergyman did not even catch the 1st instance.

The mistake is surely due to his title of Archpriest becoming mixed up in his mind with the title of Archbishop...!

Waiting to find out WHERE that title was bestowed upon Fr Peter. I presume his Met Seraphim in northern Greece did that ?

[ReaderJoJa]

Was he actually referring to himself or was he talking about Archbishop Peter of Rocor ? Haven't had a chance to watch the video yet or even decided if I am

[Niles_The_New]

From what I understand, in their letters the MP and ROCOR-MP address him as “archpriest.” His complaint, then, is “you can’t call me an archpriest, assign me to a parish, have me teach at your seminary, bless me to travel to Australia representing you, then say I’ve never been apart of your synod.”

His bishops won’t recognize him, so he can’t operate as normal, but he also can’t get a release from a bishop who says “you’re not mine to release.”

For all that can be said about him, that’s a rough spot to be in.

[Barbara]

Reader JoJa [what does that mean ?],
Fr Peter could only have meant himself because he never mentioned Archbishop Peter of Rocor - as far as I have gotten watching the video.
He didn't correct himself that time, but the next, he did.
Maybe he subconsciously wants to be a 2nd Archbishop Peter !

Niles_the_New, welcome to the Forum :
You mixed up 2 different jurisdictions inadvertently. Fr Peter was assigned a parish in the MP's Patriarchal Parishes in the US, under Bishop John of Naro-Fominsk and later Bishop Matthew.

The latter MP hierarch seems to have been quite indisposed to Fr Peter, taking 9 MONTHS to respond to his simple request to be transferred out of the MP. Then Bp Matthew wrote a bunch of strange comments and requests, making it sound as though Fr Peter had never been on the MP's Clergy Directory [Fr Peter showed viewers the entry with his picture that he had taken for that occasion]. Or had a St Seraphim of Sarov parish briefly in Florence, Arizona.

The lecture trip to Australia and New Zealand was also while Fr Peter was under the MP. He received a blessing for that missionary trip, which he seems to have spent mainly with Rocor people such as Bishop George, formerly of Jordanville. Note that Rocor has always been very strong in Australia due to the anti-Communist nature of the Russian emigres who settled there in the 1950s and 60s.

Does anyone know how many MP parishes are in Australia and New Zealand these days ? Not many, I would think, but perhaps the MP has made inroads in the past decade or two. There was that one beautiful golden-domed Cathedral the MP built in [Brisbane ? Melbourne ?] to replace an old Rocor Church.

Fr Peter showed this letter of blessing for the trip to the viewers.
WHY Bp Matthew played dumb and refused to acknowledge Fr Peter, I don't have a clue. If anyone does, please tell us.

Speaking of your remark about Fr Peter's Archpriest title, that was bestowed by his former hierarch, Met Seraphim of the Greek state church, is that right ? No subsequent hierarch would have given him that title, as it sounds like both the MP and Rocor-MP were running as fast as they could away from him !

There WAS the implication that Fr Peter's stance on that flu controversy was an obstacle. In that case, Archbishop Peter of Chicago [Rocor] MIGHT have influenced events behind the scenes, as he was known to be very pro-flu shot. As I recall, this hierarch went so far to post on his Diocesan website a photograph of himself receiving the dreadful injection in a bared shoulder [appalling!]

Comments on any of this or other parts of the video ? I want to finish it as soon as possible, but 2 hrs 45 minutes is a long time to watch document after document displayed with accompanying narration of what milestone event for Fr Peter and his Matushka happened in what year

[ReaderJoJa]

I was a Reader, when I made my handle and JoJa is the combination of my baptismal name John and my legal Jacob. Currently a Subdeacon in Rocor-MP. In the figuring things out stage.