No. 452
His Eminence In Fili,
Most Reverend Agafangel October
12, 2007 (Church Calendar)
Bishop of
Your Eminence,
dear
brother in Christ,
Bishop of
I greet you with a sacred
kiss, love, peace and oneness in the Holy Spirit, while offering your Eminence
the sincere feelings of deep respect of our honorable Hierarch and Metropolitan
Cyprian and the Most Reverend Bishops of the Holy Synod of Resistance.
I hasten as the Deputy Chairman – an appointment given
to me with the love and trust of our Hierarchy through a resolution made at its
recent regular Session (34/4.10.2007)
– to inform your Eminence of synodal resolutions
accepted at this Session (accepted, by the way, unanimously) regarding our
ecclesiastical relationship with you (Resolution
7).
“It was
unanimously decreed, that after the union of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad
under Metropolitan Lavr with the Moscow Patriarchate, to continue the
association of our Holy Synod with the Most Reverend Agafangel, Bishop of Odessa and Taurida, who did not give his consent to this union and broke off his relationship with
the Synod of Bishops of Met. Lavr.
Our association
with the Most Reverend Agafangel is ongoing and was
never interrupted; it will continue and be active in the future as well; we
will participate in ordinations of bishops, if we are asked, to strengthen his
jurisdiction; we will invite Most Reverend Agafangel
to Greece at the first possible opportunity to declare our association with him
through an official synodal meeting and to sign the
“Act of fundamental principles of our joint activities”; our simultaneous relationship
with the Synod of Archbishop of Omsk and Siberia, Tikhon,
(in Russia) is not possible, as he is not in communion with the Most Reverend Agafangel.”
In accordance with
this Resolution and with great gladness, we invite your Eminence to come to
We earnestly ask that
you schedule your visit after November 9/19, because after that date, the Most
Reverend Bishop Ambrose of Methone will be with us
after two trips abroad.
We ask you, holy
Bishop, to accept our assurance of the deep respect and love in Christ we have
for you personally and our brotherly greetings.
Least
among us in Christ
Deputy
Chairman
+Bishop
Cyprian of Oreon
Secretary
+Bishop
Clement of Gardiki