Jean-Serge wrote:He is for sure not at the beginning of such churches. The ECOF community existed well before it joined ROCOR ! It was created by someone called Winnaert and later applied to ROCOR... They were accepted with reservations regarding their liturgy and also regarding Evgraf Kovalevsky, as a try to develop a local orthodoxy. They did not last very long in ROCOR.
Re: Those people who do not last very long in Orthodoxy
There are many individuals and even groups of individuals who join either World Orthodox jurisdictions or even True Orthodox Synods, but they do not last because they were never a part of us. Either they were attempting to deceive or they were running away from various heresies like refugees and migrants, but they could not entirely divest themselves of one or more heresies. The catechumenate serves to help these refugees divest themselves from all errors, but some individuals need a longer catechumenate up to ten years in order to see the True Light, but they push the priests into baptizing or chrismating them long before they are ready.
On the other hand, those who attempt to deceive are wolves in sheep's clothing. They can wreck havoc in our churches. Thus if a pastor or individual is divisive, we should be very careful as the KGB has knowingly placed thousands of these people in the Russian Orthodox Church (MP and ROCOR), Serbian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and also in the Roman Catholic and Protestant sects. In fact the World Council of Churches (WCC) was created by the KGB to further their agenda of ecumenism to destroy Christianity.
These wolves in sheep's clothing have existed from the beginning of the Church when Christ called His original 12 Apostles. Judas was never with us in his greed and revenge as he sought a political messiah rather than the Christ Whom he denied with 30 pieces of silver. See Matthew 27:3
Thanks, Cyprian, for correcting my mistake.