Constantine wrote:Please provide some proof for this, your reputation for making accusations and then not being able to prove them is well known.
Read Epiphanius' letter (I think you know greek) and you will see it! Actually I've used his words. Secondly fr. Antonios Jeorgantas has written a book titled "80 years of light and darkness" in which is revealed the real Tobros' face. This is a book for which Mattheites haven't respond yet. Besides your own bishop calls Eugenios Tombros "Tobros of sorrowful memory". This is pretty enough for me!!!
Constantine wrote:Met Philaret, had absolutly no authority to "repremant" the Matthewite synod..
This is clearly your opinion..! If the Matthewites believed that ROCOR hadn't any authority or officiality then they wouldn't have even think to accept any cheirothesia* from them!!! The same excusses 30 years now!
Constantine wrote:the matthewites read their confession of faith to rocor in 1971, and the matthewites were told that rocor agreed with it, and the matthewites were told that rocor would issue a written "confession of faith" condeming the new calendar and cutting all ties with world orthodoxy
How many times did they issued it? about 5 - 10 times?
Constantine wrote:all the matthewites were doing is asking for what they were promised, if rocor did not want to live up to their promises thats on their heads.
The phrases "individual incidents" and "period of adaptation" doesn't mean anything to you (and to your then bishops), obviously.
The change of the calendar happened in the year 1924. Chrysostomos Kavourides returned in 1935. Mathaios ecclesiology and logic is/was that the other day of the change, the Church of Greece was graceless (as if the grace was like electricity, you switch it on/off in a second..). So based on this irresonable way of thinking, Mathaios was consecrated by a graceless bishop (Kavourides returned 10 years later). Cause he couldn't accept that it always takes time to get used to new circumstances. Not to mention the witnessed incident, when Chrysostomos went to Keratea for recociliation and Mariam closed the door to his face!
repeat again the same errors of past (see Matthaios' schism)
These are Epiphanius' words. The reasonable explanation (in the parenthesis) mine. I believe that he would like to say it straight forward (having in mind that he was on the verge to follow Kallistos to the braking off)
Constantine wrote:would you still call him blessed if he didnt return to the confession of faith that Saint Matthew upheld? Would you call him blessed if he died saying their is grace in the NC?
But he didn't! would you...if.., would you..if..if..if! And if my grandma had a moustache I would call her grandpa
Nonsense! At least we call him "blessed", not "saint"!
*if you would like to ellaborate more with what really happened to America, read Epiphanius' document and ask for the official ROCOR papers , BECAUSE the Matthewite bishops haven't still decided yet what they want to have happened, exempt Kyrikos who has decided bare-headed (meaning without official documents) that it was a "prayer of forgiveness" (and don't ask me to prove this again, cause if I'd force you to prove what you have written so far, you would come with empty hands! (or at least with Kyrikos' magazines)