Greek old calenderism history

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Greek old calenderism history

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I am trying to understand the Greek Old calenderist's history. I can read here :

The First Florinite Synod of the True Orthodox Church of Greece was fraught with problems by the 1970s, and two major separations occurred during the lifetime of Archbishop Auxentios. However, few doubt that Archbishop Auxentios himself was of a saintly character, albeit a poor bishop. Recently there have been attempts to rehabilitate his memory (Archbishop Auxentios died in 1994); most of his synod, barely held together by the 1980s, dissolved after his death into the three jurisdictions listed below. In 1986, Auxentios was removed from the Archdiocese of Athens and the leadership of the Old Calendar Church of Greece by a majority the Florinite bishops on account of a series of controversial episcopal ordinations conducted in the early 1980s with his apparent censent. Having the support of the dissenting minority of bishops, Auxentios proceeded to re-form his Synod. He died in 1994, having failed to reconcile with the rest of the Florinite Synod, under Chrysostom Kiousis.

http://www.orthodoxwiki.org/Old_Calendarists

Why was Archbishop Auxentios deposed? Which were those controversial ordinations? What happened to the re-formed synod around the deposed Bishop Auxentios.

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Archbishop Auxentios was deposed by the Holy Synod of the GOC in 1985 for acting unilaterally and for ordaining questionable characters. One of these persons was Dorotheos Tsakos, a homosexual. There was a canonical trial and Auxentios was deposed for giving a blessing to proceed. Critics point out that there were some irregularities at the trial, but it should be noted that this was not the only uncanonical action of Archbishop Auxentios. For fear of spreading gossip or rumor I will stop at this point and just say, "trust me, you don't want to know."

The majority of the GOC stayed true to the Synod and today is headed by Archbishop Chrysostomos II.

The ones who stayed with Auxentios continued down the path of disunity, spawning all sorts of questionable groups, such as HOCNA in America, and the successor to Auxentios, Maximos, ordained bishops with a fake bishop named Demetrios Biife, which caused HOCNA to leave, and after he lost HOCNA he took in Pangratios, a known child molester setting up shop in Queens as an "Orthodox" "bishop." This group is now split into some 2 or 3 fake groups each with a handful of followers.

So the fruit of Archishop Auxentios's schism is more schism while the fruit of staying with the Synod is a robust Synod, that of Archbishop Chrysostomos II.

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