The Saint Euphrosynos Cafe

I hadn't heard about the bodyguard ! That may have some possibility of being a destabilization operation in preparation for US-UK-conducted regime change in the RF. As for Putin's dropping out of sight, I favor the explanation of the secret trip to Switzerland. I always did think there was somethin...

Auxentius was in fact chosen as a candidate for episcopacy by the florinite clergy and laymen, along with Akakios. However, he withheld vital information that he had been defrocked to the ROCOR bishops. Candidates for Priesthood or Bishopric are supposed to make a confession and not withhold anythi...

As St. Matthew had fallen asleep in the Lord in 1950, Met. Chrysostomos of Florina knew that his life was also drawing to a close, so it appears that he was seeking repentance, but instead of asking the GOC Synod of Bishops to be received back into the fold, Chrysostomos asked the GOC Synod to join...

Lydia, do purchase and read Father Stephen's book with all the footnotes. He quotes various sources including HOCNA's research, correspondence, and news sources and periodicals of that time. Yes, it is a complicated history. Below is an excerpt from Fr. Stephen's book concerning the demise of the F...

Maria, you cite as a source Father Stephen Fraser. That can't be correct. He was not there when Bishop Matthew's followers begged him to consecrate a bishop alone, was he? Father Stephen is just repeating things he has read or heard. Are there official documents from the synod attesting to this? Muc...

http://www.romanitas.ru/eng/Matthewites%20versus%20Florinites.htm: In the same year of 1948, Metropolitan Chrysostomos began to recognise his error of 1937, which enabled Metropolitan Germanos of the Cyclades to return into communion with him without demanding any public repentance or “reconciliatio...

Why would he admit that he lied to his flock to appease them and to steal the monasteries at Keratea? These are crimes against God and His Holy Church. That he would write them in his own synod's periodical where the clergy and laity would read them is beyond reason. Very good point! Without showin...