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False Churches Which Have Been Created By Deposed Old-Calendarist Clergy "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free" (Jn. 8:32). In recent years our Church was compelled in agreement with the sacred canons to depose for different grave reasons certain of Her hierarchs. Two thousand years of Her history bear witness that the Church has chastised clergy that have deviated. The above-referenced clergy, however, instead of coming to repentance for their practices, resorted to rebellion and created false churches, where each of them portrays himself as archbishop or metropolitan, thus sweeping away innocent souls into destruction. What follows is a list of these false churches, which should put on guard every Genuine Orthodox Christian "that they might continue working out their own salvation with tear and trembling" (cf. Phil. 2:12), even as the Apostle Paul says.
In 1985, the holy Synod of our Church deposed the then Archbishop Auxentios Pastras and the following former hierarchs of Larissa (Athanasios), Thebes (Gerasimos Vrakas), and Kefallonia (Maximos Vallianatos), since with a command of the first (Auxentios), the last two ordained as bishop, secretly and in ignorance of the Holy Synod, the former hieromonk of the new calendarists, Dorotheos Tsakos, who was deposed by them for unethical practices. This unlawful and anticanonical ordination of Dorotheos Tsakos is considered as never having taken place by the Holy Synod. From their depositions the following false churches ensued: a. The monk Auxentios advanced the following false ordinations of bishops: 1) Efraim (Boston), 2) Makarios (Toronto), and 3) Photios (France). With the death of the Monk Auxentios in November of 1994, the Monk Maximos Vallianatos (formerly of Kefalonia), self-proclaimed himself Archbishop of his party. In May of 1996, without the knowledge of the rest of his false bishops, together with the collaboration of Demetrios Biffe, a clergyman of the new calendarists, who made his appearance as Bishop of Kandano, the following new false ordinations of hierarchs were enacted: 1) Auxentios Marines (Aigina), 2) Pankratios Xouloges (Nemea), and 3) Ephraim Papadopoulos (Serres). Also, Demetrios Biffe was named Archbishop of Crete, and altogether they formed a synod of their false church. b. The remaining false bishops of the company of Maximos Vallianatos, namely, Ephraim (Boston), Makarios (Toronto), and Photios (France), with the Monk Athanasios, former Bishop of Larissa, formed a new false church.
In 1987, the holy Synod of our Church deposed for matters of faith the once Bishop of Fili and Oropos, Kyprian Koutsoumbas, who recognized the new calendarists as a real Orthodox Church, with valid Mysteries. The Monk Kyprian Koutsoumbas set forth false ordinatios of bishops, who are: 1) Chrysostom Marlases (Christianoupolis), 2) the Englishman Ambrose Baird (Methone), 3) the Austrian Symeon Minihofer (Lampsakos), 4) the Italian Michael Pirenta (Nora), 5) the American Chrysostom Gonsales (Etna) 6) the American Auxentios Tsaban (Photike), and 7) the Bulgarian Photios Siromachob (Triaditsa). Thus he founded the false church of the Resisters. In the synod of this false church there is also the false bishop Chrysostom Alemagos of Australia.
The content of the document is accurate. The document itself is an amalgamation of separate synodal declarations.
The Bishops mentioned were deposed by the synod of Archbishop Chrysostomos Kiousis.
However:
The synod of Archbishop Kallinikos, the successor of Archbishop Chrysostomos, rescinded the deposition of Archbishop Auxentios Pastras and restored him. As you know, he is commemmorated at the Divine Liturgy as one of the Hierarchs of the GOC.
Since the synod of Archbishop Kallinikos has absorbed the now defunct Synod in Resistance of Metropolitan Cyprian, and is in communion with all its clergy, it is safe to say that this document is now irrelevant.
The content of the document is accurate. The document itself is an amalgamation of separate synodal declarations.
The Bishops mentioned were deposed by the synod of Archbishop Chrysostomos Kiousis.
However:
The synod of Archbishop Kallinikos, the successor of Archbishop Chrysostomos, rescinded the deposition of Archbishop Auxentios Pastras and restored him. As you know, he is commemmorated at the Divine Liturgy as one of the Hierarchs of the GOC.
Since the synod of Archbishop Kallinikos has absorbed the now defunct Synod in Resistance of Metropolitan Cyprian, and is in communion with all its clergy, it is safe to say that this document is now irrelevant.
Isn't it true that rescission of the deposition of Archbishop Auxentios occurred AFTER his death?
The content of the document is accurate. The document itself is an amalgamation of separate synodal declarations.
The Bishops mentioned were deposed by the synod of Archbishop Chrysostomos Kiousis.
However:
The synod of Archbishop Kallinikos, the successor of Archbishop Chrysostomos, rescinded the deposition of Archbishop Auxentios Pastras and restored him. As you know, he is commemmorated at the Divine Liturgy as one of the Hierarchs of the GOC.
Since the synod of Archbishop Kallinikos has absorbed the now defunct Synod in Resistance of Metropolitan Cyprian, and is in communion with all its clergy, it is safe to say that this document is now irrelevant.
Isn't it true that rescission of the deposition of Archbishop Auxentios occurred AFTER his death?
