Scans of the Final, Signed Documents
from the Cretan Council Available On-line
Copy of the "Relations" Text Reveals that many Hierarchs did not sign the document!
Ποιοί ΔΕΝ ὑπέγραψαν τό Κείμενο τῆς Συνόδου Κρήτης ἐν Κολυμπαρίῳ
"Σχέσεις τῆς Ὀρθοδόξου Ἐκκλησίας
πρός τόν λοιπόν Χριστιανικόν κόσμον"!
The final versions of the texts produced at the Council in Crete have been made available on-line over at the theolcom.ru
website. The text "Relations of the Orthodox Church with the Rest of
the Christian World" will be of particular interest to many, for it
shows that even more hierarchs than previously thought refused to sign
the document. Out of 162 Hierarchs present, a total of 33 Hierarchs, or 1
in 5 (20%), did not sign the document, including 5 from the
Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Of all of the Local Churches represented, the Patriarchate of Serbia
stands out with 17 of the 24 hierarchs withholding their signature. With
only 7 or about 30% in agreement with document, on what basis did the
Patriarch of Serbia add his signature to the document? Given that the
Primate's signature was supposed to express the consensus or at least
the majority of his Church, is this not a glaring example of the absence of concilarity and
the reign of a "papal" mentality? Where is the much vaunted concilarity
for which the Cretan Council was called and incessantly hailed in
official propaganda put forward by the Council's spokesmen?
Furthermore, when, in the history of the Church and General Orthodox
Councils, was a document passed with such a large minority diagreeing
and there being no break in communion or anathematizing by the majority?
In other words, when did the Church ever allow for a differing stance on matters of Faith?
To those who would say the text in question does not set forth doctrine
or attempt to define dogma, the response is that the text is chalk full
of dogmatic teaching concerning the Church, which is an object of faith
in which we confess we believe. As Christ is inseparable from His Body,
the Church, so too is Christology inseparable from Ecclesiology. What
we believe about the Church directly reflects our faith in Christ.
Hence, there can be no doubt that the Faith of the Church in Christ is at stake in the "Relations" text and there can be no compromises in matters of Faith.
The time for all bishops, and, indeed, all Orthodox Christians, and
especially clergy, to take a stand and confess the Orthodox Faith in the
One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church over and against the
new heretical ecclesiology of ecumenism, clearly expressed by the
"Relations" text, has come. May many more join the 33 who did not sign
the unorthodox document and may they all together clearly and
forthrightly set forth the Orthodox teaching on the oneness and holiness
of the Church to their flock and the entire Church
For your convenience, we have listed those who did NOT sign the text below, in order of their appearance in the text:
From the Ecumenical Patriarchate:
1. Isaiah of Denver
2. Nicholas of Detroit
3. Amphilochios of Adrianopolis
4. Antonios of Hierapolis, Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox in the USA
5. Gregory of Nyssa, Head of the Carpatho-Russian Orthodox in the USA
From the Patriarchate of Alexandria
6. Jonah of Kampala
7. Seraphim of Zimbabwe and Angola
From the Patriarchate of Jerusalem
8. Benedict of Philadelphia
9. Theophylaktos of Jordan
From the Patriarchate of Serbia
10. Amphilochios of Montenegro and the Littoral
11. Porfirije of Zagreb and Ljubljana
12. Vasilije of Sirmium
13. Lucian of Budim
14. Longin of Nova Gracanica
15. Irinej of Backa
16. Hrizostom of Zvornik and Tuzla
17. Justin of Zicha
18. Pahomije of Vranje
19. Jovan of Sumadija
20. Fotije of Dalmatia
21. Hrizostom of Bihac and Petrovac
22. Joanikije of Niksic and Budimlje
23. Milutin of Valjevo
24. David of Krusevac
25. Jovan of Slavonija
26. Ilarion of Timok
From the Church of Cyprus
27. Athanasios of Limassol
28. Neophytos of Morphou
29. Nicholas of Amathus
30. Epiphanios of Ledra
From the Church of Greece
31. Chrysostomos of Peristerion
32. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Aghios Vlasios
33. Anthimos of Alexandroupolis
ΔΕΙΤΕ ΞΑΝΑ ΠΟΙΟΙ ΔΕΝ
ΥΠΕΓΡΑΨΑΝ ΤΟ ΚΕΙΜΕΝΟ
“ΣΧΕΣΕΙΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΟΥ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ
ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΝ ΛΟΙΠΟΝ ΧΡΙΣΤΙΑΝΙΚΟΝ ΚΟΣΜΟΝ”
“ΣΧΕΣΕΙΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΡΘΟΔΟΞΟΥ ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣ
ΠΡΟΣ ΤΟΝ ΛΟΙΠΟΝ ΧΡΙΣΤΙΑΝΙΚΟΝ ΚΟΣΜΟΝ”
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