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Special Series for 2004

        
   “A Painful Remembrance”

   † Professor Andreas Theodorou (1922-2004)

   “The Participation by Patriarch Bartholomew in the Patronal Feast of Papist Rome is Anti-Patristic”


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“A Painful Remembrance”
1924-2004: The Eightieth Anniversary of the Calendar Reform
• Eighty years ago this year, the Church Calendar was changed: the 10th of March (Second Sunday of Great Lent) was designated the 23rd of March, 1924.
• This change, which violently ruptured the unity of the Orthodox in the Festal Calendar, and which provoked great turmoil in the traditionally Orthodox countries, was carried out on the basis of openly ecumenist presuppositions.
• This year, on the occasion of this painful remembrance, the “Twelfth Convocation for Orthodox Awareness” (Sunday of Orthodoxy, 16/29 February 2004) was held; as well, a series of articles has been scheduled for publication, during the course of the year, on the website.

• Sample titles of some of these articles:

1. “The Calendar Question or the Heresy of Ecumenism?” (already published in installments in the periodical “Agios Kyprianos”, The Calendar Question below).
2. “Athens is More Ecumenical than the Ecumenical Phanar.” (pdf, 393 KB; Russian pdf, 274 KB)
3. “‘Concerning the New and the Old Calendars’: A Presentation by St. Seraphim (Sobolev), Archbishop of Boguchar, to the Congress of Moscow (8-18 July 1948).” (pdf, 501 KB)
4. “A Miracle Which Confirms the Traditional Church Calendar: St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco and His Attitude Towards the Ecumenist Calendar Reform.” (pdf, 111 KB)
5. “The Sacred Struggle Receives Acknowledgment from Heaven: A Miracle of the Holy Great Martyr George.” (pdf, 696 KB)
6. “The Hierarchy Would Do Well to Restore the Traditional Calendar to the Church” (Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Florina [† 1955]) (pdf, 118 KB)
7. “His Beatitude Ended up Dyeing His Throne in the Blood of the Innocent and Devout Flock, Which Suffered Martyrdom for Orthodoxy” (Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Florina [† 1955]) (pdf, 377 KB)
8. “The Inspirers and Ringleaders of Innovation: ‘These Two Luthers of the Orthodox Church’” (Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Florina [† 1955]).
9. “Œcumenical Patriarch Meletios Metaxakis (1871-1935): Freemason, Innovator, and Ecumenist.” (pdf, 484 KB)
10. “1924-2004: From the Calendar Question to the Heresy of Ecumenism.”
11. “Are the Terms ‘Christian’ and ‘Orthodox’ Accurate in Our Times?” (Archbishop Averky [† 1976]) (pdf, 187 KB)
12. “The Greatest Snare of the Enemy-The WCC: The World Hodgepodge of Heresies” (Archimandrite Justin [Popovich]) (pdf, 174 KB)
13. “The Calendar Question and the Ecumenical Movement 1924-1994” (Metropolitan Cyprian of Oropos and Fili).
14. “A Miracle Which Confirms the Traditional Church Calendar: A Revelation of the Theotokos to the Virtuous Monk Boris (in Schema, Nicholas) of the Holy Monastery of Valaam” (pdf, 178 KB)


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† Professor Andreas Theodorou
Anti-Ecumenist and Anti-Papist(1922 - 2004)

• Andreas Theodorou, a well-known professor at the Theological School of the University of Athens, who held the Chair of the History of Dogma and Symbolic Theology, recently reposed at the age of eighty-two (he was born in Larnaka, Cyprus in 1922).
• The ever-memorable professor, aside from his prolific literary activity on the subjects in which he specialized, was particularly renowned for his zeal for Orthodoxy, which he repeatedly expressed in a vigorous way through his distinctive speeches and articles against Papism and ecumenism.
• Bearing in mind two of the first of the admirable books by this zealous professor, Ορθοδοξία και Οικουμενική Κίνησις[Orthodoxy and the Ecumenical Movement] (Athens: 1972) and Ορθοδοξία χθες και σήμερον [Orthodoxy Yesterday and Today] (Athens: 1973), we deem it worthwhile, in commemoration of their ever-memorable author, to undertake, during the current year, 2004, the republication of eight of his characteristic anti-Papal and anti-ecumenist articles.
• The titles of these articles are as follows, in chronological order of publication:
1. “Ο ορθόδοξος θεολόγος έναντι του Οικουμενισμού” [“Orthodox Theologians in Opposition to Ecumenism”] (English pdf, 83 KB; Greek pdf, 87 KB) (excerpts from a lecture on this topic delivered in 1972, which were published under the title “Ορθοδοξία και Οικουμενισμός” [“Orthodoxy and Ecumenism”] in Ορθόδοξος Τύπος, No. 182 [15 March 1973]).
2. “Το Οικουμενιστικόν Θέατρον της Ρώμης” [“The Ecumenist ‘Theater’ of Rome”] (English pdf, 73 KB; Greek pdf, 78 KB) (Ορθόδοξος Τύπος, No. 770 [25 December 1987]).
3. “Εκκλησιολογικός στρουθοκαμηλισμός” [“Ecclesiological Ostriches”] (English pdf, 89 KB; Greek pdf, 89 KB) (Ορθόδοξος Τύπος, No. 774 [29 January 1988]).
4. “Γιατί να συγχαρούμε την εφημερίδα Καθολική;” [“Why Should we Congratulate the Newspaper Katholike?”] (English pdf, 74 KB; Greek pdf, 76 KB) (Ορθόδοξος Τύπος, No. 823 [27 January 1989]).
5. “Ναρκισσισμός ή έρως Ορθοδοξίας;” [“Narcissism or Love of Orthodoxy?”] (Greek pdf, 110 KB) (Ορθόδοξος Τύπος, No. 869 [26 January 1990]).
6. “Δια ποίαν ένωσιν Εκκλησιών ομιλείτε κ. Εμμ. Γκίκα;” [“Which Union of Churches Are You Talking About, Mr. Emmanuel Gikas?”] (English pdf, 156 KB; Greek pdf, 135 KB) (Ορθόδοξος Τύπος, No. 972 [10 April 1992], No. 973 [17 April 1992], No. 974 [24 April 1992]).
7. “Ο Οικουμενισμός, το πικρό φαρμάκι της Ορθοδοξίας” [“Ecumenism, a Bitter Poison for Orthodoxy”] (Greek pdf, 123 KB) (Ορθόδοξος Τύπος, No. 1070 [8 April 1994], No. 1071 [15 April 1994]).
8. “Βαπτισματική Θεολογία” [“Baptismal Theology”] (Greek pdf, 196 KB)(“Ορθόδοξη Μαρτυρία”, [Cyprus], No. 51 [Winter 1997], pp. 11-15, No. 69 [Winter 2003], pp. 98-102).
9. “Ο φόβος και η ανησυχία πολλών ορθοδόξων” [“The Fear and Disquiet of Many Orthodox.”] (Greek pdf, 81 KB)(«Εκκλησιαστική Αλήθεια», from 16.12.1988, page 7).
10. “Τι γίνεται με το Παγκόσμιο Συμβούλιο Εκκλησιών;” [“What Is Going On With the World Council of Churches?”] (Greek pdf, 93 KB) (“Ορθόδοξη Μαρτυρία”, [Cyprus], No. 46/ Spring-Summer 1995, σελ. 44-53)


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The Participation by Patriarch Bartholomew in the Patronal Feast of Papist Rome is Anti-Patristic

“This is now the second time that the ‘Ecumenist Theater of Rome’
has been repeated during the reign of Patriarch Bartholomew”

(† Andreas Theodorou, 1987)
“What was done and said in Rome—a repetition of previous visits and meetings—
is not simply a matter of joint prayer, but rather of concelebration,
since the Divine Liturgy is indivisible”

(Father Theodore Zissis, 2004)
On the occasion of the recent meeting in Rome (29 June 2004), during which Patriarch Bartholomew participated in a markedly official capacity–in the form of joint prayer–in the Patronal Feast of the heretical Roman Catholic Church, we deem it worthwhile to reprint several important articles on the subject, in order to emphasize the anti-Patristic nature of such participation.
Among the titles of these articles are the following:
1. “The Third Visit of the Ecumenist Patriarch Bartholomew to the Vatican” (pdf, 112 KB; Greek pdf, 138 KB; Russian pdf, 278 KB) (Αγιος Κυπριανός, No. 321/ July-August 2004, σελ. 84-85).
2. Protopresbyter Theodore Zissis, “Concerning the Joint Prayer of the Patriarch and the Pope”, Part I (pdf, 165 KB; Greek pdf, 218 KB), Part II (pdf, 208 KB; Greek pdf, 240 KB) Ορθόδοξος Τύπος, Nos. 1559 and 1560 [16 and 27 July 2004], pp. 3, 4. See also Θεοδρομία [April-June 2004], pp. 165-177).
3. Archimandrite Cyprian and Hieromonk Klemes Agiokyprianitai, “Official Visits by Ecumenist Orthodox Hierarchs to the ‘Sister Church’ of Rome” (Greek pdf, 1.28 MB) (Ορθόδοξος Ενημέρωσις, Nos. 15-16 [January-June 1995], pp. 41-52).
4. Archimandrite Spyridon S. Bilalis, “The Circulation of the ‘Currency’ of Love” (Greek pdf, 119 KB) and “The Meetings in Jerusalem, Constantinople, and Rome” (Greek pdf, 168 KB) (Orthodoxy and Papism , [Athens: “Orthodoxos Typos” Publications, 1969], Vol. II, pp. 339-353).