A new publication in Greek examining the "Cretan Council" is now available on-line:

http://online.fliphtml5.com/scwn/waci/#p=1

It contains three exceptional examinations of the pre-history, oŕganization and documents of the Council by Archimandrite Athanasius, the Pro-Igoumenos of Great Meteora, Archpriest Theodore Zisis, Professor Emeritus of Patrology at the Theological School of the University of Thessaloniki, and Professor Demetrios Tselengidis, Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the same theological school.

This is a "must" read for all Orthodox Christians and especially clergy and Hierarchs!

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We will return to these important texts soon with excerpts.

[In Greek & Georgian]

FROM: http://zneoba.ge/3354

Ὁ πατὴρ Θεόδωρος Ζήσης, Ὁμότιμος καθηγητὴς τῆς Θεολογικῆς Σχολῆς ΑΠΘ, παραχώρησε ἀποκλειστικὴ συνέντευξη στὸ «Ῥωμαίικο Ὁδοιπορικό», σχετικὰ μέ:

α) Ἀπὸ πότε ἄρχισε ὁ...

Father Theodore Zisis, Professor Demetrios Tselengidis and other clergy from Greece were invited to the Republic of Moldavia to speak to clergy and monastics about the Council of Crete. The following video clip is a short excerpt from the speech given by Fr. Theodore, in Greek, with Romanian translation, in which he briefly explains the developments on Mt. Athos and calls upon the Patriarch...

A brother in Christ reacted to the decision of some Athonite Fathers to call for cessation of commemoration of the Patriarch of Constantinople by calling them a "parasynagogue." This is an interesting response, for it brings to light the question of how to discern where the Church is and where are heresy, schism and "illegal assemblies" (an English translation of the Greek word...

An "Open Letter" from Athonite Fathers to the Holy Community of the Holy Mountain of Athos is calling for an immediate convocation of the governing body of Mt. Athos in order to condemn the "false council" of Crete and cease the comemoration of the Patriarch of Constantinople on Mt. Athos.

OVER 60 Hieromonk and monks, with a disciple of Saint Paisios, Elder Gabriel of the Kelli...

Translated into English, original text (in Greek):

Ναυπάκτου κ. Ἱεροθέου: Λίγο ΜΕΤΑ τὴν «Ἁγία καὶ Μεγάλη Σύνοδο»

A few days before the convocation of the ‘Holy and Great Council of the...

“How could it happen that the Holy and Great Council on Crete called heterodox heretical communities ‘Churches?’” His Grace asked. “They said, wrote, and signed the term 'heterodox Christian Churches.' So now heretics have become a ‘Church?’ Then what oneChurch do we talk about in the Symbol of Faith?”

Met. Jeremiah noted that the Greek Church’s delegation at the Council breached its...

Declaration of His Eminence Metropolitan Athanasios of Lemesou

Because of the confusion among faithful Christians concerning whether I finally signed the text of the Holy and Great Synod with the title “Relations of the Orthodox Church With the Rest of the Christian World”, I desire to inform those who are...

The following article was translated with the blessing of the author,Archimandrite Gregorios Stephan, Abbot of the Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Bkeftine, Lebanon.

The council was finally held. It should have been an Ecumenical Council for the Orthodox Church, but the shame of confessing Orthodoxy as the One Catholic Church which holds the fullness of the Faith pushed...