Another New England Schism

spyridon · Post by **spyridon** » Wed 31 August 2005 5:42 pm

I accidently posted this on the Rocor-L -KGB posts,sorry I made a mistake.....

01 September 2005
Fr Dionysi MacGowan Orphans Parish, St Basil Parish Continues as Mission

Fr Dionysi MacGowan of St Basil of Kineshima Church in Colorado Springs has left his parish and relocated his family to Ipswich, Massachusetts. It is understood that Fr Dionysi will live on the premises of St John the Russian Parish in Ipswich, where the pastor and assistant priest, Frs. Spyridon Schneider and Christopher Johnson, have been suspended for the past month by Metropolitan Valentine of Suzdal.

According to the new website of St Basil of Kineshima Mission (which has been moved to http://www.saintbasilchurch.org due to the sudden redirection of the former website [...] to the St John the Russian site) all services are now being held at the nearby royal martyrs chapel, as the Temple has been dismantled on the request of Fr Dionysi.

Fr Dionysi MacGowan was the first priest of ROAC ordained for America in 2001 and initially founded St Basil of Kineshima Parish in Staunton, Virginia. Initially an opponent of former Archbishop Gregory of Colorado, he later became a supporter and moved his family to Colorado. In 2004 he sided with Metropolitan Valentine and the ROAC Synod when the former Bishop of Colorado attempted to cause a schism. However, in early 2005, Fr Dionysi became a loyalist of Fr Spyridon Schneider's causes and came to Russia to speak on behalf of the latter's earlier actions.

Fr Spyridon Schneider, formerly a priest of ROCOR, HOCNA, and later ROCOR-V is the pastor of St John the Russian Church and was recently suspended along with two other Massachusetts priests for attempting to promote a schism within the ROAC in the hope of creating a Bishop under the spiritual control of the Ipswich parish. The plot to create a schism was revealed late last month by Archbishop Anthony of Vyatka and Yaransk and had been known by members of Fr Spyridon's inner circle in America. Fr Spyridon, Fr Christopher Johnson, and Fr Victor Melehov were members of ROAC since Great Lent of 2004. The parish is well known for both its early loyalty to the right-wing renovationist policies of Holy Transfiguration Monastery in Boston and the production of Orthodox crosses of the finest quality.

Currently Father Deacon Nikolai Stanosheck is serving the Colorado Mission, with Hegumen Andrei (Maklakov) offering to continue serving the community at least somewhat frequently.

尼古拉前执事 · Wed 31 August 2005 6:11 pm

Where did this article come from?

spyridon · Post by **spyridon** » Wed 31 August 2005 6:20 pm

http://www.roac-nftu.blogspot.com
that is the place the article was sent to me from...hope it helps

尼古拉前执事 · Wed 31 August 2005 6:53 pm

:shock: Yikes! He reported a lot of things, some of which I had hoped (like the web site in progress) would not go public until I had gotten a blessing for it from Vladyka Valentine!

Of course I learned a few things from the article as well! LOL!

1937 Miraculous Cross · Wed 31 August 2005 11:53 pm

I've always had more than a passing interest in ROAC's presence in the US, especially since our mission in Texas was the original ROAC group to join along with then Rd Dionysi's mission. (In fact, we helped send Fr. Dionysi to get ordained.) Our leaving ROAC was due to a couple of factors and instability with the clergy was one of them. So why on earth are the Massachusetts clergy trying to cause a schism, if that is true? Hasn't there been enough trauma, given everything else that has happened in ROAC, as well as in HOCNA and ROCOR?

Nectarios

TomS · Post by **TomS** » Thu 1 September 2005 9:06 am

1937 Miraculous Cross wrote:
So why on earth are the Massachusetts clergy trying to cause a schism, if that is true?

Because they lust after power!

Geez! Can't these people get along with ANYBODY! C'mon Nick - go find a REAL jurisdiction and stop following these egotistical wacko's

So, where is the Tabernacle now? In Mass?

:shock:

尼古拉前执事 · Thu 1 September 2005 5:02 pm

TomS wrote:
1937 Miraculous Cross wrote:
So why on earth are the Massachusetts clergy trying to cause a schism, if that is true?

Because they lust after power!

Geez! Can't these people get along with ANYBODY! C'mon Nick - go find a REAL jurisdiction and stop following these egotistical wacko's

So, where is the Tabernacle now? In Mass?

:shock:

Yes the Tabernacle is on its way to Mass. And BTW I am in a real jurisdiction which has its fill of sinners just like any other one. I do not follow any egotistical wackos, I follow the teachings of the Church and my Synod. My allegiance is not to any man other than the God-Man Christ Himself.