"We have concluded that when the principle of racial division (i.e. phyletism) is juxtaposed with the teaching of the Gospel and the constant practice of the Church, it is not only foreign to it, but also completely opposed, to it. We decree the following in the Holy Spirit: 1. We reject and condemn racial division, that is, racial differences, national quarrels and disagreements in the Church of Christ, as being contrary to the teaching of the Gospel and the holy canons of our blessed fathers, on which the holy Church is established and which adorn human society and lead it to Divine piety. 2. In accordance with the holy canons, we proclaim that those who accept such division according to races and who dare to base on it hitherto unheard-of racial assemblies are foreign to the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and are real schismatics."
Constantinople...1872
Re: Letter from Metropolitan Methodios forbids concelebration with OCA clergy
wasn't Fan Noli the first Orthodox Bishop of Boston and isn't Nikon his successor???? also didn't the Metropolia of America have a Bishop of Boston berfore the Greeks did? None the Less the Albanians should have the right of Primacy and Methodios need be retired??????? or am I in error?
on 3/23/2008, 8:20 pm, in reply to "Letter from Metropolitan Methodios forbids concelebration with OCA clergy"