Avlona Synod deposes Bishop Seraphim Karam

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In this consecration picture on July 17, 2016, Bishop Seraphim (Karam) is front center.

Father Sozomenos is standing behind him at the altar with his very dark bushy almost black beard.

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Thanks, Father and Maria, for the added information.
Lebanon : that sounds just like the name's derivation. Good to know there are True Orthodox there !

I appreciate the photo very much. Would you know which hierarch that is on the far left front ?
And where the location is of the consecration ?

Thanks for identifying Bishop Seraphim and Fr Sozomenos. I have never seen a picture of the latter. It helps to put the name with the face, as the expression goes.

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Barbara wrote:

Thanks, Father and Maria, for the added information.
Lebanon : that sounds just like the name's derivation. Good to know there are True Orthodox there !

I appreciate the photo very much. Would you know which hierarch that is on the far left front ?
And where the location is of the consecration ?

Thanks for identifying Bishop Seraphim and Fr Sozomenos. I have never seen a picture of the latter. It helps to put the name with the face, as the expression goes.

The leader of the Kyrikites, Kirikos Kontogiannis, is pictured at the bottom left on this photo.

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Re: Avlona Synod deposes Bishop Seraphim Karam

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Bishop Serapim explains why he left here:

http://media.wix.com/ugd/9060ee_7f65e85 ... 1c2b3b.pdf

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That's quite a story and completely foreign to my experience.

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Well at least we are able to read Bishop Seraphim's side. It was professionally written, down to the signatures in elegant script. We now see that Hieromonk Nektarios [Maalouf] has joined him in departing the Avlona Synod. Maybe there will be more photos sometime down the line in which this Hieromonk appears, just so we know who he is now.

I like that title of Bishop Seraphim "Met of Mt Lebanon and Exarch of all Phoenicia", the name for the land which is today Lebanon. This area of the Eastern Mediterranean, termed "the Levant" by 19th century Europeans, has been the seat of many very advanced cultures since the most ancient times.

I noticed several connections to Russian Feast Days. Bp Seraphim [Karam] resigned on St John Maximovitch's 50th Anniversary this year, was consecrated on the Sunday of the Royal Martyrs Feast, and wrote this on the day of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.

I wonder whether St Xenia Cathedral in Limassol is dedicated to the early martyr or to Blessed Xenia of St Petersburg ?

What do you have to say, Fr Irineos ? That is, if you feel like making a rebuttal. You may want to let it go.
If you want to respond, then we'll see you in the Intra-TOC Forum !

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Thanks, Maria. I figured that must be Met Kyrikos. But wanted to be sure.

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