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1871
Born Emmanuel Metaxakis.
1889
Enters the Ecclesiastical School of the Holy
Cross, in Jerusalem, where he is a schoolmate of
Chrysosotom Papadopoulos, the future Archbishop of
Athens who will impose the papal calendar on the Greek
church.
1892
Tonsured with the name Meletios; ordained deacon.
Completes his theological courses; ordained
priest.
1900
Patriarch Damianos of Jerusalem assigns him as
secretary to the Holy Synod.
1906
From the 1967 monograph written by the Mason
Alexander Zervuldakis, we learn that in this year
Meletios Metaxakis first meets with Masons in
Constantinople.
1908
Patriarch Damianos evicts Meletios Metaxakis and
Chrysostom Papadopoulos from the Holy Land, for
"activity against the Holy Sepulcher."
Full cooperation between Meletios and the Greek
Masons begins. He is registered in the HARMONY Lodge.
1909
He is initiated into Masonry. Zervuldakis
writes: "After his initiation, Brother Meletios spread
Masonic activity everywhere he went during the entire
gamut of his tumultuous life" (THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF
THE "PAN-ORTHODOX" CONGRESS IN CONSTANTINOPLE, Bishop
Photios of Triaditsa, 1996, p. 13).
1910
Elected Metrpopolitan of Kition in Cyprus.
In the years before World War I he begins
successful talks in New York with representatives of
the Episcopal church in America, with the intention of
"expanding relations between the two churches" (Bishop
Photios, p. 10).
1912
Nominated as candiate for Ecumenical Patriarch.
The Holy Synod, though, decides he cannot be
canonically registered.
1918
The revolutionary politician and Mason
Eleftherios Venizelos seizes the government of Greece
from the monarchy, without an election. His government
uncanonically deposes the Archbishop of Athens.
Meletios Metaxakis visits England, where he
engages in talks concerning union between the Anglican
and Orthodox churches.
1919
With the aid of the revolutionary dictatorship of
Venizelos, Meletios Metaxakis usurps the throne of the
Metropolitan of Athens. He accepts Venizelos as the
ruler of Greece, commemorates him at Liturgy, instead
of the monarch. Hence Metaxakis causes a schism: the
Venizelists vs. the Royalists, among whom are
Metropolitan Germanos of Demetrias and Saint Nectarios
of Pentapolis.
Metaxakis raises the question of changing the
Church calendar, sets up a commission, and declares:
"We consider it imperative to reform the calendar"
(op. cit., p.16).
1921
December 17: the Greek Ambassador in Washington
D.C. sends a message to the prefect at Thessalonica
stating that Metaxakis, "vested, took part in an
Anglican service, knelt in prayer with Anglicans,
venerated their holy table, gave a sermon,
and...blessed those present" (op. cit., p. 10).
December 29: the Holy Synod of the church of
Greece, presided over by Metropolitan Germanos of
Demetrias, deposes Metaxakis for infractions against
canon law and for causing a schism.
1922
January 24: With the support of the Greek
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but without being
canonically elected, and though deposed by the Holy
Synod of the church of Greece, Meletios Metaxakis is
enthroned as Ecumencial Patriarch. Metropolitan
Germanos Karavangeis (NOT of Demetrias) swears that he
accepted a bribe to allow Metaxakis to take his place
on the Ecumenical throne, since Metaxakis could
bring-in $100,000 for the Patriarchate: his friendly
relations with Protestant "bishops" in England and
America---plus the expressed will of
Venizelos---demanded that Metaxakis be elected
Patriarch. Upon his enthronement, Metaxakis says: "I
give myself over to serving the Church from its first
Cathedra, to develop, as much as possible, closer,
friendlier relations with the non-Orthodox churches of
the East and West, and to advance the work of union
between us" (op. cit., p. 9).
Metaxakis accepts the validity of Anglican
Orders.
He establishes the Greek Archdiocese in America.
The Greek government influences the Greek church
to lift Metaxakis' defrockment as Archbishop of
Athens.
1923
Metaxakis recognizes the "Living Church" in
Russia as the only true Russian Orthodox church. Dr
Ivan Konzevitch writes: "In May of 1922 there arose a
church schism (in Russia): renovationism--the
so-called Living Church, which attempted to unite
Christianity with Marxism. Members of the Living
Church, together with the Cheka (communist secret
police) warred against the 'counter revolution.' They
seized churches and destroyed monasteries. Concerning
the Living Church, Elder Nektary (of Optina) stated
his opinion resolutely: 'There is no Grace there. By
rebelling against the lawful Patriarch, Tikhon, the
bishops and priests of the Living Church have deprived
themselves of Grace and have lost, according to
canonical ruling, their hierarchal office. Because of
this, the Liturgy performed by them is a blasphemy'"
(ELDER NEKTARY OF OPTINA, 1998, p. 209).
Metaxakis assembles the "Pan-Orthodox" Congress
(May 10-June 
, attended only by representatves of
the churches of Greece, Serbia, and Romania---oh yes,
and by the Anglicans: so we see that this assembly is
by no means Pan Orthodox. And yet Metaxakis boasts:
"We work as a commission of the whole Church" (p. 18).
The "Pan-Orthodox" Congress explored the following
"reforms":
1) the transfer of the Feast Days of major saints to
the nearest Sunday, to lessen the number of holidays
2) to allow bishops to marry
3) to allow second marriages for widowed priests and
deacons
4) to abbreviate the Church services and fasts
5) to cut the hair and beards of the clergy
6) to replace the Church calendar, including making
Pascha an immovable feast. In his epistle to the heads
of the seven local Orthodox churches, Metaxakis
declared that the calendar change was imperative: "in
order to facilitate the union of all Christians, so
that all who call upon the name of the Lord might
celebrate His Nativity and Resurrection on the same
day" (p. 20).
June 1: Clergy and laymen, enraged by the false
teachings of Meletios Metaxakis, hold a meeting which
ends in an attack on the Phanar, with the goal of
deposing Metaxakis and expelling him from
Constantinople.
July 1: Using the pretext of illnes, Metaxakis
leaves Constantinople.
September 20: He retires as Patriarch.
1924
Metaxakis' successor, Gregory VII, imposes the
Pan-Orthodoxly condemned papal calendar on the
Ecumenical Patriarchate. Metaxakis' schoolmate and
friend, Chrysostom Papadopoulos, now the Archbishop of
Athens, imposes the Pan-Orthodoxly condemned papal
calendar on the Greek church.
1926
May 20: Metaxakis is confirmed as Patriarch of
Alexandria. He imposes the Pan-Orthodoxly condemned
papal calendar on the Alexandrian Patriarchate.
The synod of the the communist Living Church
writes to him: "The Holy Synod (sic) recalls with
sincere best wishes the moral support which Your
Beatitude showed us while you were yet Patriarch of
Constantinople by entering into communion with us as
the only rightfully ruling organ of the Russian
Orthodox Church" (p.12).
1930
Metaxakis takes part in the Anglican Lambeth
Conference, to help facilitate union with the
Anglicans.
Critically ill, Metaxakis nevertheless offers
himself as candidate for Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Metropolitan Methodios Konostanos (d. 1967) writes:
"This exile from the Holy Land, from Kition, from
Athens, from Constantinople, Meletios Metaxakis---an
unstable, restless, power-hungry spirit, an evil
demon---had no qualms about grasping for the throne of
Jerusalem, even from Alexandria, in his desire to
extend himself" (p. 12).
1935
July 28; Meletios Metaxakis dies in Zurich, is
buried in Cairo.
