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Patriarchate of Antioch: “All bishops within the Antiochian See are auxiliary...
Posted to the website of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America: THE DECISION REGARDING THE AMENDING OF ARTICLES CONCERNING BISHOPS ACCORDING TO THE BY-LAWS OF HE PATRIARCHATE...
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New Jersey: “Most of the auxiliary bishops will remain where they are”
An update of sorts. From the Antiochian website: March 4, 2009 Beloved Hierarchs and Clergy, Members of the Board of Trustees of the Archdiocese, Parish Councils and Faithful of this God-Protected...
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To a particular anonymous “clergyman in this region”
From the comments section on OCANews: I am so sick and tired of hearing all this non-sense and garbage. The bottom line is that many of these Bishops, namely Bishop Mark, have over-stepped their bounds...
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New Jersey: “It was necessary to normalize the status of all bishops across...
This gets less and less clear the more Met. PHILIP attempts to explain. From Antiochian.org, in response to a letter sent by the Council of Presbyters of the Diocese of Wichita and Mid-America: Beloved...
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AOCA Chancellors issue opinion on Holy Synod’s 24 February decision
The Archdiocese’s own attorneys have weighed in. The conclusion is the money quote, to say the least: …the February 24th decision is not a valid decision of the Holy Synod of Antioch. Moreover, even if...
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OCANews: All bishops but Met. PHILIP to go to Damascus next week
Mark Stokoe and friends report that the six bishops who were enthroned in their dioceses, minus Metropolitan PHILIP, will travel to Damascus on 1 June for meetings with Patriarch IGNATIUS IV. Full...
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How much should we read into these pictures?
AOCNA’s North American bishops with Metropolitan PHILIP on Friday, 24 April: And with Patriarch IGNATIUS on 2 June 2009: It’s tempting to want to use the contrast between Bps. BASIL and ANTOUN as the...
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Holy Synod of Antioch: “the nature of the Episcopate is one”
From OCANews: The Holy Synod of the See of Antioch, after long discussion and deep deliberation of the Synodal decision of February 24, 2009, and with the recommendations of His Beatitude, the...
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Englewood: “…the Archdiocese has not received any document that contains the...
The Archdiocese posted this. The Patriarchate replied with this. The Archdiocese now says this. I no longer have any clear idea what this is actually about. I can tell that certain people are in...
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“…if we were to be just, then we must, first and last, to put pastoral care...
Hi. I still don’t have an internet connection where I’m staying. It started going in and out a couple of weeks ago, and then last Monday (the 6th) it died entirely. My host spent about four days trying...
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