Pat Kirill SKIPS Rocor's Great Luminary Met Philaret !

[Barbara]

From the Rocor-MP website coverage of the MP's service in Holy Protection Cathedral, a famous landmark now being used as church at least for this visit
on May 9 2013.

Note that Archpastors of Rocor WHO went back to the Soviet Union, such a Met Victor, Met Melety [I think ?], Met Nestor of Kamchatka - what is this new
title ? Must be his assigned Soviet diocese ! -
and -
Met Philaret [Vosnesensky]'s father, Archbishop Dimitry of Hailar are all included.

So was Archimandrite Veniamin who was first a good friend then a bitter and jealous rival of Met Philaret.

But where is the latter listed among the Archimandrites [his rank at the time of his service in Harbin, before being consecrated Bishop of Brisbane, Australia
in Sydney shortly after he emigrated there from Harbin.

We all know how popular HE was with the Soviet snoops trying to control the Russian expatriate community ! Apparently, his refusal to take a Soviet passport
still bothers the MP characters to this day ??

Is there some other reason our Saint would not have been included here in this list ?
It says : DEPARTED, and certainly Met Philaret qualifies as that.... hmmn!

Interestingly, Abbesses Rufina and Ariadna ARE included, though the 2 were vociferously anti-Soviet.
[Will supply the link ]

"Commemorated also during the service were the archpastors, pastors and laity of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission and the Chinese Autonomous Orthodox Church. Commemorative prayers were read for Metropolitan Flavian of Kiev and Galitsia; Metropolitan Innokenty of Peking and China; Metropolitan Viktor of Krasnodarsk and Kuban; Metropolitan Mefody of Harbin and Manchuria; Metropolitan Melety of Harbin and Manchuria; Metropolitan Nestor of Kirovograd and Nikolaevsk; as well as Archbishop Simon of Peking and China; Archbishop Dimitry of Hailar; Archbishop Nikander of Rostov and Novocherkassk; Archbishop Yuvenaly of Izhevsk and Udmurt (Schema-Archbishop Ioann); Archbishop Kliment of Sverdlovsk and Kurgansk; Bishop Simeon of Shanghai; Bishop Vasily of Peking and China; Bishop Leonty of Enotaevsk; Schema-Archimandrite Seraphim; Archimandrite Ilarion; Archimandrite Antony; Archimandrite Ilarion, Archimandrite Gervasy; Archimandrite Amvrosy; Archimandrite Nikolai; Archimandrite Ioakim; Archimandrite Sofrony; Archimandrite Peter; Archimandrite Veniamin; Archimandrite Polikarp; Protopresbyter Elias Wen; Schema-Hegumen Ignaty; Hegmen Sofrony; Hegumen Innokenty; murdered Protopriest Stefan Wu; Protopriest Dimitry; Protopriest Alexander; Protopriest Pavel; Protopriest Mikhail; Protopriest Innokenty; Protopriest Ilya; Protopriest Dimitry, Protopriest Valentin; Protopriest Rostislav; Protopriest Alexander; Protopriest Dimitry; Protopriest Peter; Protopriest Nikolai; Protopriest Dimitry; Protopriest Ioan Du; Protopriest Vasily Du; Protopriest Nikolai Li; Protopriest Leonid Liu; Protopriest Mikhail Lo; Protopriest Daniil Hei; Protopriest Vladimir Du; Hieromonk Varsonofy; Hieromonk Simon Bai; Priest Grigory Chzhou (the last rector of Protection Church), Priest Ioann; Priest Maksim; Priest Pinne Du; Preist Anikita Van; Priest Vasiliy Lo; Priest Feofan Du; Priest Fotiy Hei; Priest Antony Yao; Priest Nikita Du; Protodeacon Falalea Mao; Protodeacon Evmeny Ine; Deacon Nikolai Chzhane; Schema-Abbess Rufina; Abbess Ariadna; Monk Iakinf; and all the fathers, brothers and sisters “who labored for the Church of Christ in the land of China."

[Maria]

Mod. Note:

Please provide your references (link) for the above story.

Thanks.

[Barbara]

I wrote "Will supply link" because I knew you would say that !
Sometimes I get called away before I can finish something - plus I don't know any way to get the link AND the story together.
It requires going back twice and often something interrupts. That's why I am slow with those links oftentimes. Sorry !

http://www.synod.com/synod/eng2013/2013 ... arbin.html

[Maria]

I wrote "Will supply link" because I knew you would say that !
Sometimes I get called away before I can finish something - plus I don't know any way to get the link AND the story together.
It requires going back twice and often something interrupts. That's why I am slow with those links oftentimes. Sorry !

http://www.synod.com/synod/eng2013/2013 ... arbin.html

Thanks for providing the link.

Often I provide a very short excerpt and brief comment with the link, then later on, I come back and in the rare case where no one has posted any response, then I present a more in depth commentary in a new post. In that way, I avoid a copyright violation, get the thread started especially if time is of the essence, and then have no more concerns.

Hope this helps.

By the way, it is indeed sad that Patriarch Kirill has failed to mention Met. Philaret of blessed memory.
Isn't Metropolitan Philaret considered a saint in True Orthodoxy? Has he been canonized?

[jgress]

He was canonized by ROCOR-A, RTOC and HOCNA at least. I think we all consider him a saint (except probably for the Matthewites).

[Barbara]

Why don't the Matthewite consider him a Saint ?
I sometimes don't write that appellation because I figure that outsiders from jurisdictions which have not YET
canonized him may call us fanatics.
Maybe that does not make sense anyway, but I remember a Greek Archdiocese priest dismissing scornfully one
of the TOC glorifications of him [Hocna in that case] as "merely political, to serve their own agenda".
So I have been sensitive to that approach ever since [rightly or wrongly maybe I should not care]
I am hoping that RocorMP will canonize him SOON, so that is whom I have in mind, actually.

[Lydia]

St. Philaret was tortured by the Japanese in Northern China during WW II for refusing to do obeisance to an idol they had erected next to the Church. He was almost blinded and was left permanently disfigured. As they started to burn his back he said he prayed to St. Nicholas for strength and although he smelled his own flesh burning, he felt no pain. His torturers were so moved by his faith and courage that they left his congregation alone. Yet many in World Orthodoxy, such as Bishop Tikhon, take delight in mocking him and denying that he is a Confessor.
His relics are incorrupt and miracle working.
It would shock me to see ROCOR/MP glorify him; but God knows his Saints.