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Did Constantinople and Alexandria remain in communion with the Living Church until the death of Alexander Vvedensky in 1946 or did they abandon the Living Church for the Soviet Church in 1943?


Patriarch Benjamin III of Constantinople (1936-1946), appears to have not recognized the election of ...

Within Greek True Orthodoxy, people of the Matthewite and Cyprianite persuasion have misinterpreted the intentions behind the 1950 encyclical issued by Metropolitan Chrysostom of Florina and his fellow hierarchs in 1950 which condemned the State Church of Greece to be graceless. Both parties seem to ...

What specifically precipitated the formation of the STOC ?

Was it the SAME as [the later-to-be consecrated Bp] Akakios' group that we call STOC today ?


Yes, except that there is now a schism between the Akakian-STOC led by Bishop Akakius of Uteshiteljevo, and the Kallinikite-STOC who ...