sojourning_one wrote: ↑Thu 28 August 2025 8:45 pmharalampopoulosjc wrote: ↑Tue 26 August 2025 2:03 pmIt's also a misconception that the Matthewites have always been stricter than all the other TO synods on who they commune. I've read that several Matthewite clergy continued to commune laymen from the ROCOR and Florinites well after we broke communion with them in 1976. This probably continued well into the 1980s and even the early 90s.
Would it be possible to get some verifiable testimonies of this?
Just anecdotal. The Matthewites under Archbishop Andreas were in dialogue with the GOC-K (under Archbishop Chrysostom Kiousis) from 1988 to 1992, trying to establish unity. I'm guessing that the communing of Florinite laymen stopped after the dialogue broke down.