Category: Legal Violations
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Crookedness of Conduct
The Sunday of Orthodoxy (the first Sunday of Lent, 4 March 2023 ), is not a day of pride in ourselves and in what we were freely given, but a day to evaluate our work by it, that is, to carry out a process of evaluation and critique of our conduct as the Orthodox community according…
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On the Occasion of the New Case (the Diocese of Sweden):
I apologize first to you, faithful and worshippers, for the stumbling blocks that we, the priestly body, cause you, for not a month passes without stumbling blocks for you, and the distortion of the image of the Church before the foreign nations, because of some case and the manner of handling it. Grieve over us…
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Defrocking Outside the Sanctuary
Father Lazarus Abboud The Antiochian Synod took a decision yesterday to defrock a retired metropolitan, justifying the decision: the former metropolitan alleged the establishment of rights in his favor over assets and funds belonging to the diocese without any right, and resorted to the civil judiciary in the United States of America, and the fathers…
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The Nomination of a Metropolitan: Divorce.
Lazarus Abboud The Archdiocese of America became vacant following the resignation of Metropolitan Joseph Zahlawi, and the procedures for electing a new metropolitan for the archdiocese began according to its internal statutes (the Constitution of the Archdiocese of North America). It is noteworthy that this archdiocese is the only one that enjoys such an organization…