Married Men Could Make Good Candidates for Bishops!

[Subdeacon Jerjis]

Subdeacon Jerjis/Dr Alajaji

Married Men Could Make Good Candidates for Bishops!

There are many reasons to have more married bishops
who voluntarily separate from their wives.

First they are more financially independent, and are
thus hopefully less corruptible.

Second, they are more astute in worldly matters.

Third, they will not be molded or programmed by any
monastery or seminary. The new world order
(communists, masons, zionists, modernists, ecumenists,
etc...) does naturally target seminaries and monasteries,
because these are the sources of the future leaders of the
church.

However the NWO cannot control every married couple.
If an orthodox man is upright and faithful with his
wife in his married life, and studies the Scriptures,
Fathers, Rudder, etc. on his own or under a good
spiritual father, practices asceticism and a prayer
rule, outside of a corrupted seminary or monastery, we
have the promise of Christ that the Holy Spirit will
teach him all things. Vladimir Moss is an example in point.

Fourth, the NWO can control 20 bishops better than 200
bishops.

Fifth, just by shear numbers, whenever there is
apostasy, it would be easier to find two remnant true
bishops among 200 as compared to 20.

Sixth, we would have a better chance of finding an
upright orthodox christian who is a good candidate for
the bishopric among married men, just because there
are more of them than monastics.

Seventh, St Paul prescribed that bishops could come
from married men who have proven themselves by
"ruling their households well," and "having a good report
from those without. Today's monasteries are filled with men
who for the most part have not "proven" themselves as those
who have "a good report from those without."

In conclusion, having a higher ratio of bishops to priests
and laity would be a safer trend. In addition, properly
understanding that not all bishops should be chosen from
among the monastics, it is very important for
the strength and versatility of the Church in this age
of apostasy, the age of antichrist.

Sbn. Jerjis/Dr Alajaji

[1937 Miraculous Cross]

Dear Jerjis,

I agree with you. the monastic clergy I've seen in America leave me very skeptical about finding good bishops. Nonetheless, I don't think
we can be absolute either way. There is "bad seed" everywhere.
Plus, it would be hard to find a wife who would want to go to a convent...which convent? If not a convent, who would take care of the wife?

in Christ,
Nectarios
Austin,TX

[Subdeacon Jerjis]

Dear Nectarios my dear brother in Christ Jesus Our Lord,

I am so encouraged to hear from you my dear brother.

Of course there is "bad seed" everywhere. But on the other
hand there is "good seed" everywhere.

A wife would not at all have to go to a convent. She could be
a "solitary," that is live in an apartment and live as a monastic.
I know that many women do this whose husbands have reposed.

In the scenario I am presenting, the husband would live seperatly -
that is all.

And besides, after child bearing and child raising years are over,
couples have their own independant interests that they indepen-
dantly pursue. Why not for Christ and His Church?

Sbn Jerjis/Dr Alajaji

[Nathaniel Kapner]

I'd like to add my humble opinion here.

Why does the wife have to go anywhere if the Church decides
to choose her very fine husband as a bishop for the Church?

As far as me and St Paul and St Peter are concerned - these two
lovebirds can stay Just That!

And why not? Simon Peter led about a wife we read in ICorinthians.
And who stopped him? Not me and I won't stop Nectarios our dear
friend if he should desire a good work, that is being a bishop.

Nectarios Bishop! Some day, Nectarios you and Olympia will have
a real ministry.

Sub Deacon Nathanael
I.m going to stop lebedeff's vote
you better believe it.

[1937 Miraculous Cross]

Dear in Christ Nathanial,

you wrote:

Why does the wife have to go anywhere if the Church decides
to choose her very fine husband as a bishop for the Church?

On a personal level...I have often felt the Church should go back to pre-Quini-Sext (I think that is when the unmarried bishop canon law came into being?) days. Of course, one of the compelling reasons for having unmarried bishops was the issue of families passing on the bishopic from father to son and so forth.

Nonetheless, there is nothing less sacred about the married state, especially if marriage is a Holy Mystery of the Church. I think married men might be more stable as bishops. However, this is all speculative thinking and I serious don't think anything like this would happen again.
It is kind of like the role of the Deaconess, and unlikely to be resurrected.

Regarding myself becoming a bishop...well, if we started the Autonomous Anonymous Orthodox Church of Texas, that could be a possibility, or even better, my wife could become a bishop.
I know of a "Celtic" "orthodox" jurisdiction that has a female bishop!

in Christ,
Nectarios

[Subdeacon Jerjis]

My dear brother Nectarios in Christ Jesus Our Lord,

How I thank God for our friendship! I am so happy to have
in you dear brother in Christ Nectarios one who prompts me
ever onward in a like zeal for our precious faith and for our
Savior's church.

Of course nepotism could be a problem with married bishops'
appointments of their familial successors. But do not we see
the same thing with the "monastic" bishop's and their successors?

Not only from relative to relative, but from demagogue to
demagogue. Yes - the problem is rampant. I would prefer
the former which is the lesser of the two "evils."

I am more optimistic than you my dear brother in Christ Nectarios.
I hope to live to see the day when we will indeed see "married"
bishops..."deaconesses" too.

Yours in Christ,

Sbn Jerjis/Dr Alajaji