The Synod of G.O.C. (Genuine Orthodox Christians) of Archbishop Kallinikos of Athens recently made use of the Law 4301/2014 of the Greek Government. This law has to do with the establishing of so-called religious “communities”.
In Greece, the basic rights of the True Orthodox were already protected by non-profit civil societies, companies, and unions of...

In an article entitled "Fruits of Schism: Part 2", Fr. Victor Melehov, the RTOC Secretary of the Synod in Massachusetts, criticizes the the leaving of the Lesna Convent from RTOC, as well as the communion established between the Bishops of the Serbian True Orthodox Church with the Bishops who left the Synod of Metropolitan...

Bishop Makarios of Toronto, the last of the original HOCNA bishops made in the early 1990s, has officially left HOCNA, and applied to join the Lamian Synod in Greece. According to some sources given to NFTU, Bishop Makarios has been accepted by the Lamian Synod. Bishop Makarios explains his departure as based...

On June 2, 2019, during a visit to Syria, the Serbian Patriarch Irinej, participated, along with Patriarch John of Antioch, in a join ecumenical service with Monophysite Syro-Jacobite clergy, including the Monopysite patriarch. Patriarch Irinej preached his heretical ecumenist teaching by proclaiming that " theologians of both churches agreed that we confess the...

(Clearwater, FL) Over a decade ago, we reported on the arrest of Fr Koumianos Hatzileris (when he was with the Synod of Gregory of Colorado) soliciting a prostitute and getting an undercover cop instead. Well, two decades later and at over 70 years old, he's back with a sexual battery charge!

Hatzileris, a retired...

On the night of New Calendar December 24th, the ecumenist Patriarch of Serbia, Irinei, allowed the local Anglican community to use one of his churches in Belgrade, as well as attended the Anglican Christmas services. Patriarch Irinei is well-known for his ecumenical views and practices, such as participating in Jewish religious services. The Serbian...

It's gotten to the point where we don't even need to add commentary anymore. It just speaks for itself. From OrthoChristian.com: The newly-created Ukrainian Church needs to work on softening its views towards the LGBT community and supporting the gay community in Ukraine in order to not be like the conservative Russian Church, “Metropolitan” Epiphany Dumenko,...

(source) On the results of the discussion of 9-10 November 2018 Discussions were held in Paris, 9-10 November 2018, between delegations of representatives of the Russian True Orthodox Church (RTOC), (that part of the church which is no longer subordinate to the Synod of Archbishop Tikhon of Omsk and Siberia and is temporarily under the...

From 8/21 to 10/23 November 2018 a meeting of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian True Orthodox Church was conducted.  The RTOC's First Hierarch is Archbishop Tikhon of Omsk, who succeeded Archbishop Lazar (Zhurbenko).  During the Synod meeting, two anathemas were passed, and ordered to be included in the Synodikon of Orthodoxy.  These...

The Fruits of a Schism Last month (October, 2018), the Agafangel Synod deposed two of its bishops (Archbishop Andronik of Canada, and Archbishop Sophroni of St. Petersburg, Russia), and summoned the suspended Abbot Andrei (Erastov) from Australia. Why is this important to the Orthodox Faithful? Because the kaleidoscopic deceit of this synod continues to spin...

Despite the fight over ecclesiastical territorial recognition and control in the Ukraine, and despite attempts by more sincere MP members to steer the breach in communion between the Phanar and Moscow into a more productive dispute over Ecumenism, the Moscow Patriarchate's chief representative under the Patriarch, and its head of the Department of External...

MP spokesman in Jerusalem says that concelebrations and communion may be cut off between MP and JP over Kiev; as it is, communion between the EP and the MP is over and done with: Hegumen Nikon, Secretary of the Russian Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, says: "If the Patriarchate of Jerusalem takes the side of the...